tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 03 13:36:56 2010
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RE: Philosophical plurals...
Quvar:
>>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}.
qurgh:
>I've always thought of -pu' as being flexible. If a speaker believes a
>noun can use language then that they would use -pu', there isn't a hard
>and fast list of nouns that can only take -pu' IMO.
>
>To me lompu' may refer to zombies or some other kind of conscious corpse.
>If I can (or think I can) converse with it, then I will use -pu' on it.
... the plural of {Qun} [god, supernatural being] is {Qunpu'} since
they are or were presumably capable of using language, which is what
the plural suffix {-pu'} implies... [st.k 7/19/1999]
Note that the word for spirit, {qa'}, takes the plural suffix {-pu'},
which is used for beings capable of using language. Spirits do
speak. [KGT 117]
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons