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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] being capable of language suffix class -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Thu May 10 04:46:54 2012
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:46:33 +0200
From: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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ghel De'vID:
> I guess the question is, is it the noun that determines the suffix
> class, or the referent of that noun?
Without checking any book, I say: when in doubt, always the noun.
In this case, a "choice" is not a person, even when referring to it.
On proof for this is the slang expression {Ho'} for "hero, idol", which
will be {Ho'Du'} and {Ho'wIj} even when used to refer to a person.
Lieven.
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