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Re: Philosophical plurals...

Lieven Litaer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']

ghItlh Steven Boozer:

> Thus if one still views corpses as individual "persons" you can use {lompu'} - Terran might well do this - otherwise Klingons use {lommey} to refer to them as empty shells.

I do not really wish to contradict my admired Master of Ca'non, but here 
I must. We have had this same question quite recently, and we came to 
the result that {-pu'} only works with body-PARTS, not the body itself.

So living or not, they are definitely {lommey}.

Quvar.

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