tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 19 11:07:58 1999
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Re: Spell My Name Right! (was: Re: greetings)
>From: [email protected]
>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:01:53 EDT
>
>vIghItlhta' quljIb:
>> >2) pongwIj mu'DuvaD yIpItlh! *quljIb* 'oH 'ej *QuljIb* 'oHbe'qu'!
>>
>> nuqjatlh? mu'tlhegh wa'DIch vIyajbe' chaq "*mu'Du'vaD" DaHech... 'ej
>> muj je mu'qoqvetlh (porgh 'ay'mey bIHbe' mu'mey'e').
>
>Yes, I know, an unusual usage to be sure, pagh *mu'Du'vaD* vIHechchu'qu'. My
>name is a part of me, almost a bodypart, you might say, so I thought is was
>appropiate.
But you're using the body-part *plural*, implying that you are talking
about words (plural words) which are in some sense parts of some body. And
yet you're only asking me to consider a single word. Don't get carried
away with poetic uses of -Du'. Yes, it's specific to body parts and yes
you can thus do clever poetic (and very marked) uses of it to imply some
things, but it still is only what it is: a PLURAL MARKER which happens to
mark plurals of body-parts.
~mark