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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/23/2018 3:19 PM, Alan Anderson
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Nov 23, 2018, at 9:26 AM, mayqel qunenoS <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><mihkoun@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Suppose I want to say "everyone can become an officer, even my sheep".
I could write {yaS lumojlaH Hoch, vabDot yaS mojlaH DI'raqwIj}.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">{Hoch} is grammatically singular. As a subject, it should call for the null prefix. Using {lu-} anyway will be understood, but it’s like saying “everyones”.
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<p>I was going to say the same thing, but then I found this in <i>paq'batlh:</i>
<b>Hoch qImmoH mu’meyDaj</b><i> All were bemused by his words.</i>
It lacks the <b>lu-</b> that would be required if <b>Hoch</b>
were grammatically singular here.</p>
<p>But then later we have <b>qeylIS bop Hoch’e’ Qoybogh qotar</b><i>
All he </i>[Kotar] <i>heard was Kahless.</i> If <b>Hoch</b>
were automatically grammatically plural you'd need a <b>lu-.</b></p>
<p>It seems to me that <b>Hoch</b> is grammatically singular or
plural depending on whether you're imagining it as individuals or
a whole.<br>
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