On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 15:32, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
You *could* say something like *HIp vItuQmoH,* but this would mean you put someone unspecified into a uniform, in the same way that *Hol vIghojmoH* means you teach someone unspecified the language. But it *doesn't* mean *I put on the uniform,* which means specifically that I am both the wearer and the putter-on. *HIp vItuQmoH* means only that I am the putter-on; the wearer is unspecified.
This reminds me of a tailor or seamstress, or perhaps a squire, the servant of a knight one of whose jobs it is to dress him. In the same way that {tlhIngan Hol ghojmoHwI'} is a person who teaches Klingon to unspecified people, a {HIp tuQmoHwI'} is a person who puts uniforms on unspecified people. -- De'vID