[tlhIngan Hol] qepHom grammar questions

[SuStel]

On 10/4/2017 4:33 PM, Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:39 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/4/2017 2:33 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
>>     On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Lawrence M. Schoen
>>     <klingonguy at gmail.com <mailto:klingonguy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Imagine a situation in which a Romulan challenges me to a
>>         duel. It's an honor thing, so naturally, I accept, but I hold
>>         the Romulan in such contempt that instead of asking someone
>>         like you to serve as my second, I instead assign that role to
>>         my pet mugato. Would I not describe the mugato as *cha'DIchwIj*?
>>
>>
>>     A {cha'DIch} in that context is a special title for a specific
>>     role though, it's not just counting something.
>
>     It doesn't have to be. Since numbers can act like nouns
>
>
> That was my point, yes.

I was just addressing the question about whether proper nouns or titles 
might get special treatment. We've seen *cha'DIch* used as an apparently 
special title, so I presented a few that couldn't be interpreted as 
titles or nouns.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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