ok, this is becoming confusing ; and to make things even worst, this question came to my mind minutes ago.. .. someone builds a completely automated physical store, which store sells medical products. wouldn't we be able to call that store Hergh ngevwI' ? and then we have the Hergh QaywI'. If we analyze the QaywI', then we see that the {Qay} means to transfer. However the given translation, doesn't refer to a person who transfers ; it rather refers to a thing, which transfers. Unless the definition of {Hergh ngevwI'} as "being the person who does", comes directly from 'oqranD, then why couldn't we use it to describe the store as well ? So, the million dollar question is this : Does the definition of {Hergh ngevwI'}, as "the person who does", come directly from 'oqranD ? qunnoq On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
{Hergh ngevwI'} refers to the person who sells, or to the store which sells ? Or both ?
De'vID:
It refers to the person. In the TalkNow! Klingon softwhere {ngevwI'} and {Hergh ngevwI'} are used, the pronoun {ghaH} is used.
But see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy (or maybe https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Μετωνυμία is more appropriate)
nuqDaq ghaH Hergh ngevwI''e' Where is the chemist? (TNK)
Another example from TalkNow! is:
nuqDaq ghaH ngevwI''e' Where is the shop? (TNK)
On the other hand a {Hergh QaywI'} "pneumatic hypo" (also called a hypospray and hyposyringe in Trek) is a medical device, lit. "thing which transfers medicine".
-- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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