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Re: KLBC: language-using suffixes vs. personal pronouns

Tad Stauffer ([email protected])

• From: Tad Stauffer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC: language-using suffixes vs. personal pronouns
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:39:05 -0400
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

At 09:24 AM 8/23/2004 -0400, lay'tel SIvten wrote:
>If I use {-wI'} on a noun referring to some thing I'm pointing at, must I use
>{ghaH} to correctly refer to it in speech?  Or is {'oH} acceptable?  (This
>question is prompted by taD's cartoon in QQ4.)

My plan, when I made the cartoon, was that the character's use of {'oH} 
would clash with his explained use of {SajwI'}. He goes out of his way to 
refer to the creature as capable of speech, but he then refers to the 
creature as an "it" - thus the punchline, if you will.

Looking at page 51 in TKD now, however, I see that the distinction between 
{chaH} and {bIH} is described as capable of speech vs. incapable of speech 
(presumably because English "they" doesn't make this distinction). However, 
{ghaH} is described simply as "he/she" and {'oH} is described as "it".

- taD

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