tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 31 17:21:48 2001
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Re: KLBC -- "Kill 'em all..."
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC -- "Kill 'em all..."
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:13:25 -0400
From: [email protected]
>>In a message dated 8/24/2001 4:29:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>
> > With an imperative prefix:
> > {Hoch yIHoH} "Kill everyone!"
> >
>
>While I realize that some nouns are corporate in nature and could take the
>imperative prefix indicating a single entity, I do wonder if {Hoch tIHoH}
>would not have been better here.
Certainly not! /tI-/ would only be appropriate if the object were plural.
It is not. /Hoch/ is a singular noun. It is most definitely not /Hochpu'/.
The singular or plural CONCEPT is not important when deciding on verb
prefixes. It is strictly a matter of whether the WORD itself is plural.
SuStel
Stardate 1667.0
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