tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 24 22:15:49 1997
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Re: body parts
ja' peHruS:
>I assume this is the version of Hokey Pokey sung by MO himself.
ghobe'. vI'oghta' jIH.
No, it's my own invention, building slightly on some words by Qov.
> So far on
>this listserv I have only seen {poS} and {nIH} with N4s affixed.
Huh? Do you mean you've never seen them without type 4 suffixes?
>But, in that each is a Noun, why can they not stand alone in possessing a
>Noun in the second position. This results in: {SopmeH poS ghop lo'be'
>tlhIngan SuvwI'vetlh}. Must we use {poSDaj} instead?
No. English is my native language, and has influenced the way I think about
my left hand. I think a native speaker of French would tend to think about
a left hand without a required possessive, in much the way your Klingon
sentence expresses it.