[86876] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan porgh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Thu Nov 19 21:17:12 2009
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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:13:50 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Steven Lytle wrote:
> {'ay'} is not a body part.
{porgh 'ay'} is.
Or do you feel that the choice of plural is inherent in the word
itself and not in how it is being used in context? There's some
support for that position: The v-shaped handles of a cooking pot are
called {DeSqIvDu'} even though they're not actually body parts.
-- ghunchu'wI'