tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 13 10:33:39 2009
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Re: Yet another newbie!
Though you don't need -mey to show plurality, since nouns without a
plural ending aren't necessarily singular:
TKD 3.3.2: "In Klingon, a noun without a plural suffix may still
refer to more than one entity [...] For example, yaS 'officer' may
refer to a single officer or to a group of officers, depending on
other words in the sentence or the context of the discussion."
2009/11/13 Krenath <[email protected]>:
> Or << mu'HomHeymey >> since there is more than one word.
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> Or perhaps << mu'tlheghHomHeymey >> ... "apparently minor sentences"
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> On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Tracy Canfield <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Since -Hom isn't merely "small", but "minor", perhaps "fine print"
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>> mu'HomHey
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>> "apparently minor words".
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>> 2009/11/13 Karl-Filip Faxen <[email protected]>:
>>> Tracy Canfield wrote:
>>>> 2009/11/13 Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
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>>>>>> I do not think I got it right, I think it should be:
>>>>>> {mu'Hom laDlu'taHviS yeplu'qu'niS}
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>>>>> "One must be very careful when (while) one reads the Dictionary."
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>>>>> Ain't that the truth!
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>>>>> A couple of points:
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>>>>> "Dictionary" is {mu'ghom}. A *{mu'Hom} - {mu'} "word" + {-Hom}
>>>>> "diminutive" - would be a "wordlet, minor word, etc." (A
>>>>> grammatical "particle" perhaps?)
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>>>> I took it to mean "fine print".
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>>> maj! choyajpu'!
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>>> /buSwI'
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