On Sep 2, 2020, at 7:16 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
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.
ray'lIj 'oH ghotvetlh'e'. ray'Daq yIbach!
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.
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.
-- ghunchu'wI'