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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/2022 10:07 AM, Iikka Hauhio
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">SuStel:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><i
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif">Panatheneans,</i><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui,
sans-serif;display:inline !important"><span> </span>being
plural, should be treated as plural when used as a foreign
word in Klingon.<span> </span></span><b style="color:rgb(0,
0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif">yupma'vaD
panatheneans ponglu'.</b><br>
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<div style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I think there is an error in this
message, since you use singular <b>ponglu'</b>. So do you
think that the word should be treated as plural (and the verb
should be <b>luponglu'</b>), or that the word should be
treated as singular (and the verb should be <b>ponglu'</b>)?</span></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Arial" color="#222222">In my opinion,
the word should be treated as singular, since it's a name and
a foreign word.</font></div>
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<p>Yes, I should have used the <b>lu-.</b></p>
<p>Being a foreign word has nothing to do whether a word is treated
as singular or plural. It's plural. It should be treated
grammatically as plural. <br>
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<p>Being a name is irrelevant here, since the Klingon grammar isn't
"it is called 'X'" but "one names the Xes." Literally, the Klingon
sentence isn't directly assigning a label to something; it is
saying that you name something, which you identify with the label
with which you name it.<br>
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