[91460] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] beings capable of speech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Tue Dec 27 16:59:28 2011
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:56:55 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W495E42C1945BC45C5E0C4FAAAF0@phx.gbl>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 04:14 27/12/2011, people wrote:
>taH:
> > Maybe that was another bad example. Let's say you have a talking
> > dresser drawer or closet, would its doors be {lojmItmey} or
> > {lojmItDu'}?
>
>As with the Thomas the Tank Engine example in the last couple of emails, hard
>to say, especially since there's no canon that would help us. I think the
>closet would consider its own doors to be its {lojmItDu'}, but whether others
>would also call them that, no idea.
I think it would be understandable but excessively cute. I'd have a
hard time bringing myself to do it, except perhaps in the context of
the closet coming to me for help rIQmo' lojmItDu'Daj. It would still
be a little mindbending, a bit like "injured furniture" in English.
It's damaged, not injured, whether it talks or not.
- Qov.
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