<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Okay, during coffee intake (perhaps before enough of it kicked in), a lightening-like idea hit me for using {law’wI’pu’}. Yes, it’s weird:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">reH tlhIngan yoH law’, tera’ngan yoH puS. SuvDI’, reH puSwI’pu' jey law’wI’pu’ net Sov.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As further evidence, I suggest that {puSwI’} is the etymological root of an English derogatory term that sounds similar.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 22, 2019, at 3:40 AM, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" class="">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I lost the original to message to quote it, but mayqel said he felt strange using {law'wI'}.<br class=""><br class="">The reason is that {law'wI'pu'} does not mean "the many" but the "ones who are many". Again: it does not mean "those multiple people who are lots of single persons altogether" but it means "those people of which each single one is many" which makes no sense.<br class=""><br class="">So, IMHO, {law'wI'} "thing/person which is many" makes no sense at all.<br class=""><br class="">Unless, maybe, in situations where the Borg queen said "I am the one who is many", but that's a very unusual situation, even in English.<br class=""><br class="">If I'd use {law'wI'pu'} in a sentence, it sounds like "the manyers" in English.<br class=""><br class="">....but this is not English ...<br class=""><br class="">Still, this is an interesting question that cannot be answered entirely, as Maltz may tell us other things about that. What about {mapuS} or {malaw'}? Isn't that "we are many"?<br class=""><br class="">Based on this phrase<br class="">{Doq SuvwI'pu'; DoqwI'pu' vIlegh.}<br class="">the following should be acceptable too:<br class="">{law' SuvwI'pu'; law'wI'pu' vIlegh.}<br class=""><br class="">Okay, now I'm eating my own statement... :-/<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Lieven L. Litaer<br class="">aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br class=""><a href="http://www.klingonisch.de" class="">http://www.klingonisch.de</a><br class="">http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Many<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>