tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 15 10:06:05 2003
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Re: collective/sentient
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: collective/sentient
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:59:42 -0400
>From: [email protected]
>I should probably know this, but I'm getting confused on a
>grammer point involving a collective noun which refers to
>persons. For "Respect our troups", which is correct:
>
>neghmaj yIvuv
>neghma' yIvuv
>neghmaj tIvuv
>neghma' tIvuv
neghma' yIvuv
Inherently plural nouns are treated as grammatically singular. This one is
still referring to beings capable of using language.
SuStel
Stardate 3454.1
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