tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 09 03:55:33 2000
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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:55:15 EST
In a message dated 11/8/2000 4:43:00 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< There is no category defined in Klingon grammar as "a being not capable of
language". For the purposes of applying suffixes to indicate plural nouns,
the categories are "beings capable of language", "body parts", and
"everything else". {-mey} is the "everything else" plural suffix.
>>
Here ghunchu'wI' is incorrect. There is a fourth category of plural which he
has failed to mention at all. Even it is divided into two types of plurals.
The category is inherent plural. This category contains both words which
have no singular and words which have a different form in the plural.
I'll touch on these in the Grammar Highlight soon enough.
peHruS