<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span> chIch vay' 'oy'moHmeH 'oy'naQ 'ul law' tlhuD 'oH<br>
Painstiks ... emit a highly-charged shock for the<br>
express purpose of inflicting pain. S32<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I just want to say that I like this canon example. I never would have thought of using {'ul law'} for "highly-charged shock".</div><div><br></div><div>Which raises a question: does {law'} make {'ul} plural? In other words, does a Klingon interpret this phrase and "many electricities"? Or can {law'} be used with non-count nouns to mean something like "much" or "a large amount of"?</div><div><br></div><div>I once argued in HolQeD that all Klingon nouns can be used as count nouns, and the phrase {'ul law'} seems to fit that hypothesis.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>bI'reng</div></div></div></div>