[90573] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Tue Nov 8 11:48:43 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
<tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:47:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4EB8EB73.2030309@web.de>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
I get the feeling the space in cha''etlh was left out on purpose, but that'=
s just a hunch.
If it is meant to be that way, and there really is such a root word, it may=
indicate that there are similar tools/weapons on Qo'noS, and not just some=
thing they made up for the EuroTalk DVD.
> 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.
The case is similar in Swedish:
a pair of scissors =3D en sax
two pairs of scissors =3D tv=E5 saxar
However, if you were to tell somebody "en sax har tv=E5 blad" ("a pair of s=
cissors has two bladed"), I doubt anyone would complain.
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