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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2019 12:42 PM, Will Martin
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<div class="">And just to add one more element to the discussion,
isn’t {paq’batlh} poetry? </div>
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<div class="">We’ve been specifically told that in poetry, the
plural suffixes are not bound by normal rules of grammar.
Admittedly, that was in reference to the rare, poetic use of
{-mey} on body parts, but in TKD, for either beings capable of
language or body parts, using {-mey} always refers to the
“scattered all about” meaning, either in poetry or normal
speech. There’s no reference to it being intentionally used as
an insult in TKD or the Addendum.</div>
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<p>We're only told that body parts that use <b>-mey</b> to mean <i>scattered
all about</i> only appear in poetry. The best you can say here
is a blanket statement that the whole thing is poetry, and who
knows what poetic license the poet took? (And come to think of it,
I think it's supposed to be a translation of a translation, not
the original poet's exact words.)<br>
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