[90455] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Nov 3 12:12:27 2011
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:10:38 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6031E43D02DC2@EVS02.ad.uchi
cago.edu>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 07:56 03/11/2011, you wrote:
> >>> comb - jIb Ho'Du'
>
>Qov:
> >> This makes me sad because I like to have the extra clarity of using
> >> -mey when using a body part name to describe a non body part and it
> >> looks like I'm wrong.
>
>qe'San:
> > Possibly as this is a descriptive usage it's the way to go and as -mey
> > on body parts implies all over the place you wouldn't want someone to
> > think you wanted to decorate your hair with teeth you'd knocked out of
> > an enemy ;-)
>
>Note Okrand's comment on {nevDagh} "type of pot with handles (used
>for food preparation)" in KGT:
>
>KGT 97: The smaller {nevDagh} is characterized by its V-shaped
>handles, termed {DeSqIvDu'} ("elbows"; note the {-Du'}, the plural
>suffix for body parts is used here even though the handles are not
>literally body parts).
Yeah, but that was one and he pointed it out, so maybe it was an
anomaly just for that pot, but now it's a pattern. I am probably also
using plurals incorrectly when I say things like <nach DuQwI'Du'> for
-- well you know, because I used the body parts suffix. Would you
have had I not?
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