[tlhIngan Hol] pluralizing body parts detached from the body

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Thu Oct 15 06:33:03 PDT 2020


On 10/15/2020 9:29 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
> SuStel:
>> You failed to quote the relevant part
> Do'Ha' s.k.1998.03.23 QIn vIghajbe'; jIHvaD {DIr} {veDDIrmey} je De'
> 'aghpu' boQwI'. QIn Hoch Darevpu', qatlho'.

http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-03-23b-news.txt


> SuStel:
>> The question then becomes whether turning body
>> parts into food changes them from body parts to non-body parts
> latlh DuH law' tu'lu' je:
>
> "the warrior saw the scattered limbs laying on the battlefield", "the
> doctor tried to reattach the severed fingers", "she had ten pairs of
> fake eyelashes in her drawer", "prosthetic limbs aren't covered by the
> insurance for self-inflicted injuries"..

Those are all body parts. They are all considering plural items in 
reference to their being formerly or hypothetically connected to bodies.

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SuStel
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