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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2019 10:03 AM, Hugh Son puqloD
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<div dir="ltr">On Sep 27, 2019, at 07:55, SuStel <<a
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2019 7:04 AM, mayqel
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Since we don't know, what exactly a {petaQ} or a {yIntagh} is, I know
that probably there's no answer.
But I wonder..
How would you pluralize the {petaQ}, {yIntagh}, {toDSaH}, etc ?
Would you use {-pu'} or {-mey} ?</pre>
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<p><i>paq'batlh</i> has <b>petaQmey,</b> referring to people.<br>
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<div>But what if they were just scattered all about? Within the
context of the paq'batlh verse, I don’t think such a reading is
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<div>nItlhejbogh petaQmey</div>
<div> tInuD chaHvaD</div>
<div> nIb yan wIjwI' jan je</div>
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<p>There's also zero evidence that the beings referred to are
scattered about, and the "assembled warriors" are "at your side,"
addressing Molor. Impossible to be scattered? No, but not very
likely either. Almost any plural could be imagined to be
"scattered" if you try hard enough.</p>
<p>What this quote doesn't do is prove that you <i>must</i> insult
the <b>petaQ</b> you're addressing by referring to them as
things; it just seems that Molor happens to do so. It seems
obvious that insulting someone with <b>petaQ</b> might lead you
to further insult them by implying they're things instead of
people, so saying <b>petaQmey</b> instead of <b>petaQpu'</b>
might be common, but we have no data to support that.<br>
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