[tlhIngan Hol] Duran lung DIr

[De'vID]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 07:43, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 04.04.2019 um 23:38 schrieb De'vID:
> > If the cook is ordering five pieces of Durani lizard skin from a
> > butcher, it would be {vagh Duran lungmey DIr}, not *{vagh Duran lung
> > DIrDu'}. I don't think the latter is possible, as {DIr} is being used in
> > the sense of a material in this context.
>
> Okay, that may be correct in this context, but what I suggested is not
> wrong either. At least, the latter is not impossible.
> In his message in st.k, Okrand wrote:
>

You should state the source. It's from a message on the startrek.klingon
newsgroup:
http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-03-23b-news.txt


> ----
> [...]if the skin just came off either by natural causes [...] or by the
> creatures being, well, skinned, then the body-part plural
> suffix {-Du'} may be used: {DIrDu'}.
>
> But {DIr} alone, without a suffix, is heard most often.
> ----
>
> So we are both right.
>

Actually, that message supports your idea that an order to a butcher would
use {DIrDu'}.

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De'vID
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