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RE: pabpo' peqIm!

• From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: pabpo' peqIm!
• Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 09:18:54 -0700
• Cc: "'Carleton Copeland'" <[email protected]>

> pabpo' peqIm! (mnogouvazhaemyi voragh v tom chisle)!
> 
> SIbI' HIqeS!
> 
> How do I pluralize {petaQ} (assuming I do use a suffix and that the
objects 
> of my abuse are humanoid)? Do I recognize the language ability of 
> {petaQpu'} or, since it's an insult anyway, use the rudely deklingonizing 
> {petaQmey}?

There is nothing insulting about using the general plural marker {-mey} on
beings capable of language.  The connotation in this case is "scattered all
about" (as in {DujDaq puqmey tu'lu'} "there are children all over the
ship").  

Unless your {petaQ} are scattered all over some place, use {petaQpu'}.

> qa'ral

--Holtej 'utlh

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