[87849] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Philosophical plurals...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Wed Mar 3 14:39:54 2010
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:27:00 +0100
From: Lieven Litaer <qepHom@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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ghItlh Steven Boozer:
> Thus if one still views corpses as individual "persons" you can use {lompu'} - Terran might well do this - otherwise Klingons use {lommey} to refer to them as empty shells.
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}.
Quvar.
