tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 18 18:25:54 2002
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Re: TKW p. 186
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: TKW p. 186
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:24:32 +0000
> This construction is heard with increasing regularity, though hardly
> a majority of the time. It leads to no misunderstanding as long as
> the object noun (jaghpu' ["enemies"] in the examples above) is marked
> for plural--that is, as long as it has a plural suffix (here, -pu')
> or is a word that is inherently plural (such as cha ["torpedoes"]).
{cha} takes {yI-} anyway, as it is grammatically singular.
(TKD 3.3.2, near the end, p. 24 in the English version)
>Voragh
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
Sangqar
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