On 6/28/2019 9:44 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
SuStel:
And yes, the petaQmey is used for beings > capable of using language. They're not scattered all about in the passage, so it's > being used insultingly.
I can't understand though, why the {-mey} instead of {-pu'}. Is this some special case, as in {Dojmey}, which has {-mey} even if referring to beings capable of language ?
It's because they're /p'takhs!/ What other reason do you need? The full stanza is: *nItlhejbogh petaQmey tInuD chaHvaD nIb yan wIjwI' jan je* /Look at these p'takhs at your side, They don't know how to distinguish A sword from a plough!/ The idea is that they're so stupid, Molor is going to refer to them as if they were things instead of people. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name