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Re: Klingon WOTD: pel'aQ (noun)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pel'aQ (noun)
• Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:44:13 EST

In a message dated 1/22/2007 3:58:59 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Eggs are not body parts. They are living beings, incapable of using  
> language. The plural uses {-mey}. Egg shells are body parts. The  
> plural uses {-Du'}. Eggs and egg shells are not the same thing, and  
> the rules applying to their plural forms are not identical.
> 

Eggs may be considered to not be living beings.  
But the point about egg shells as body parts is good.

lay'tel SIvten

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