tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 22 10:26:46 1997
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Re: maHagh tlhInganpu'
ja' "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
>> {ma-} is a prefix which indicates a first-person, plural subject, whereas
>> {tlhInganpu'} is a third-person, plural subject.
>
> Some would say that a noun {tlhInganpu'} / "Klingons" is 1st-person when the
>speaker is one of them, or 2nd-person when the speaker is talking to them.
Those who would say that are disagreeing with TKD. According to section 5.6
it is merely a word used in direct address, grammatically unrelated to the
rest of the sentence.
-- ghunchu'wI'