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Re: mangpu' or negh?

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: mangpu' or negh?
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:21:43 -0400
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> I think using {-mey} in this instance would just be considered  
> insulting:
> {mangmey} "the incapable-of-language soldiers".

You're thinking of the use of a "nonspeaking" possessive suffix where  
a "speaking" one is called for.  Using the "nonspeaking" plural on a  
speaking entity isn't insulting.  All it does is imply a "scattered  
about" meaning.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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