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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping

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



Am 08.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Philip Newton:
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 20:48, Qov<[email protected]>  wrote:
scissors - cha''etlh pe'wI'
cha' 'etlh are two blades... is there a space missing? Is {cha''etlh}
{cha' 'etlh}, just smooshed together? Or something else?

looks like "two-blade cutter".

BTW, this one is a good example showing that the creator of Klingon is an english speaker. Not every language (e.g. German) does see the scissors as a pair. scissors is plural, because it has two blades. French does the same: les ciseaux. In german, it's singular: eine Schere.

Lieven.

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