<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sep 2, 2020, at 7:16 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>If you want to distinguish speaking targets from body-part
targets from other targets, you need to do so by description. The
grammar won't do it for you.</p>
<p><b>ray'lIj 'oH ghotvetlh'e'. ray'Daq yIbach!</b></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The grammar of that sentence is doing it just fine. It is clearly indicating, in multiple ways, that the target is not a being capable of speech. It is very jarring for me to see {ghot} as the subject of such a sentence.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s also weird to try to reconcile the singular pronoun with the claimed implication that it refers to a plural entity, but inherent plurals are weird in general when one tries to mix them with explicitly plural ideas.<br><br><div dir="ltr">-- ghunchu'wI'</div></div></body></html>