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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] plural of "comb"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Mon Feb 13 11:56:58 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F393FB2.3060304@trimboli.name>
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:56:23 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:52, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> This is similar to English words like "scissors." You have "one pair of
> scissors," not "one scissors." Or you have "the scissors" meaning one pair
> of scissors. If I saw two pairs of scissors I would accept it if someone
> pointed at the two pairs and called them "the scissors."
>
> Does Klingon work that way? Who knows. Lacking any information I'd assume
> that Klingons don't have a special way of talking about "a comb"; they can
> only talk about "hair teeth." Likewise a single hotel is "meb pa'mey." But
> multiple combs are just even more hair teeth {jIb Ho'Du'} bound into
> multiple sets, and multiple hotels are just even more guest rooms {meb
> pa'mey} organized into multiple buildings or companies. If you had one comb
> and called it {jIb Ho'Du'}, then got another comb and called the pair of
> them {jIb Ho'Du'}, I wouldn't have a problem. If you wanted to count combs,
> I'd have a problem (because we don't have information on how Klingons count
> objects that are considered as plural entities).
MTE.
SEI: jIQochbe'chu'.
(Though I thought it was "mebpa'mey", one word, though obviously
derived from/related to {meb pa'mey}.)
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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