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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] beings capable of speech

Robyn Stewart ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



At 04:14 27/12/2011, people wrote:
taH:
> Maybe that was another bad example. Let's say you have a talking
> dresser drawer or closet, would its doors be {lojmItmey} or
> {lojmItDu'}?

As with the Thomas the Tank Engine example in the last couple of emails, hard
to say, especially since there's no canon that would help us. I think the
closet would consider its own doors to be its {lojmItDu'}, but whether others
would also call them that, no idea.

I think it would be understandable but excessively cute. I'd have a hard time bringing myself to do it, except perhaps in the context of the closet coming to me for help rIQmo' lojmItDu'Daj. It would still be a little mindbending, a bit like "injured furniture" in English. It's damaged, not injured, whether it talks or not.

- Qov.

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