tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 24 08:46:48 1999
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RE: pabpo' peqIm!
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: pabpo' peqIm!
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:47:32 +-300
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Just goes to prove I'm still a taghwI' (and probably delirious). First I
forget a rule I know perfectly well, then manage to invent a spurious
replacement rule. Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'!
qa'ral
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From: d'Armond Speers[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: 24 iiya?y 1999 a. 19:19
To: '[email protected]'
Cc: 'Carleton Copeland'
Subject: RE: pabpo' peqIm!
> 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
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