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 jeLook 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