<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 15:32, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-1642815511364603080moz-cite-prefix">You <i>could</i> say something like <b>HIp vItuQmoH,</b> but
this would mean you put someone unspecified into a uniform, in the
same way that <b>Hol vIghojmoH</b> means you teach someone
unspecified the language. But it <i>doesn't</i> mean <i>I put on
the uniform,</i> which means specifically that I am both the
wearer and the putter-on. <b>HIp vItuQmoH</b> means only that I
am the putter-on; the wearer is unspecified.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>This reminds me of a tailor or seamstress, or perhaps a squire, the servant of a knight one of whose jobs it is to dress him. In the same way that {tlhIngan Hol ghojmoHwI'} is a person who teaches Klingon to unspecified people, a {HIp tuQmoHwI'} is a person who puts uniforms on unspecified people.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>