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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Tue Nov 8 03:42:52 2011
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:42:27 +0100
From: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+cwSm_LqQ=NQphStPyQxdXwg7X6PjjbwxR__ynO3Z9i9teQuQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 08.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Philip Newton:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 20:48, Qov<robyn@flyingstart.ca> 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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