[91062] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Noun cases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Wed Nov 30 10:22:07 2011
In-Reply-To: <4F9C2772-15AF-44F3-ACCA-29AE60D8441E@gmail.com>
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:21:30 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:12, lojmIt tI'wI'nuv
<lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> You fell into one of those little traps that Okrand left for us. *puqmey*
> does not mean "children scattered all about". The only example Okrand gave
> us was {tlhonmey} for "nostrils scattered all about". So, body parts with
> the "can't use language" plural form imply "scattered all about". That's the
> only violation of noun gender that has a poetic meaning in Klingon. Any
> other violation is simply ungrammatical without meaning.
I guess I misread this bit of TKD:
"It can also be used with nouns referring to beings capable of using
language (those nouns which take {-pu'}). When it is so used, it adds
a notion of "scattered all about" to the meaning. Compare: {puq}
<child>; {puqpu'} <children>; {puqmey} <children all over the place>".
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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