tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 19 11:50:15 1999
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Re: Spell My Name Right! (was: Re: greetings)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Spell My Name Right! (was: Re: greetings)
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:46:34 EDT
In a message dated 8/19/99 2:08:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:
> >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
>
"Word parts of my name." But I see your point.
quljIb