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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] qepHom grammar questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence M. Schoen)
Fri Oct 6 05:01:10 2017
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From: "Lawrence M. Schoen" <klingonguy@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 14:21:18 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:33 PM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
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>
> To me {wejDIch} isn't a thing that can be owned by someone, it's simply a
> way to count things in a list. Putting a possessive on it just seems
> strange to my mind.
>
Imagine a situation in which a Romulan challenges me to a duel. It's an
honor thing, so naturally, I accept, but I hold the Romulan in such
contempt that instead of asking someone like you to serve as my second, I
instead assign that role to my pet mugato. Would I not describe the mugato
as *cha'DIchwIj*?
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