[tlhIngan Hol] Relevance of language ability to third person singular pronouns

[Alan Anderson]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:49 PM Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:

> What do you all think about {'oH} versus {ghaH}? Has Maltz ever said
> anything to point us more strongly towards one interpretation or the other,
> with regards to whether {ghaH} might apply to beings incapable of language?
>

On the old MSN expert forum, Marc Okrand said:

> the question {yIH nuq?} "What is a tribble?" is exactly parallel to the
> statement {yIH 'oH} "It is a tribble"


[See http://klingonska.org/canon/1996-12-12b-news.txt for the full text of
his message.]

A tribble is an animate being. It gets the pronouns {'oH} and {nuq}, not
{ghaH} and {'Iv}.

-- ghunchu'wI'
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