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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Irregular plurals & prefixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Sun Nov 20 00:30:05 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EC7F8B2.4090404@trimboli.name>
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:29:27 -0500
To: tlhIngan Hol email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 12:49 PM, Qov wrote:
>>
>> I've forgotten how irregular plurals work with prefixes.
>
> Irregular plurals are treated as grammatically singular.
The Klingon Dictionary says this explicitly on page 24.
(Actually, it refers to them as "inherently plural" nouns, a phrase
also used consistently in Klingon for the Galactic Traveler. The term
"irregular plurals" seems to have been invented by people like us.)
-- ghunchu'wI'
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