tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 05 04:24:36 1996
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tu'lu' with plurals
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: tu'lu' with plurals
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 96 07:24:05 EDT
I seem to recall seeing someone recently, perhaps in one of the SkyBox analyses,
pointing out a missing {lu-} on a {tu'lu'} construct. I was rereading TKD
and noticed that in 4.2.5, where it talks about the {tu'lu'} idiom,
it explicitly says that it takes a third-person *singular* subject pronoun
(0). And the one example provided is {naDev puqpu' tu'lu'} -
not, as one might expect, {naDev puqpu' lutlu'lu'}. From this I infer
that {tu'lu'} is a special case that doesn't take the {lu-} prefix.
On the other hand, it could just be another instance of Okrand's notes
not being updated when he made changes that impact them elsewhere . . .
or even a typo. It's not like there aren't other errors in the examples
({lujpu' jIH} for "I have failed" - note the missing {jI-} - appears
twice in 3.3.5. Perhaps we could convince Dr. Okrand to make an errata
sheet available somewhence?)
Opinions? Should plural {tu'lu'} be added to the list of questions for
the next interview?
-marqoS
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