On 7/6/2022 10:07 AM, Iikka Hauhio wrote:
SuStel:
/Panatheneans,/being plural, should be treated as plural when used as a foreign word in Klingon.*yupma'vaD panatheneans ponglu'.*
* * I think there is an error in this message, since you use singular *ponglu'*. So do you think that the word should be treated as plural (and the verb should be *luponglu'*), or that the word should be treated as singular (and the verb should be *ponglu'*)?
In my opinion, the word should be treated as singular, since it's a name and a foreign word.
Yes, I should have used the *lu-.* 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. 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. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name