tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 12 20:31:17 1999
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Re: KLBC: bIQDep / bIQ Ha'DIbaH
ja' 'oghwI':
>Would Klingons think of fish as beings rather than animals? I would have
>thought that beings are capable of language and animals as not, so fish
>should not be beings.
There's no reason to assume a being must be capable of language. In
fact, we quite definitely know that it isn't; the two qualifications
for getting a {-wI'} or {-lI'} or {-ma'} or {-ra'} possessive suffix
are 1: "being", and 2: "capable of language".
I don't see a distinction between beings and animals. The distinction
you're making is merely between capable of language and not. Consider
that Klingon vocabulary also includes a word for {HosDo'} "energy beings".
Apparently a being doesn't even have to be a physical thing.
-- ghunchu'wI'