10 Jun
2016
10 Jun
'16
10:22 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
chIch vay' 'oy'moHmeH 'oy'naQ 'ul law' tlhuD 'oH Painstiks ... emit a highly-charged shock for the express purpose of inflicting pain. S32
I just want to say that I like this canon example. I never would have thought of using {'ul law'} for "highly-charged shock". Which raises a question: does {law'} make {'ul} plural? In other words, does a Klingon interpret this phrase and "many electricities"? Or can {law'} be used with non-count nouns to mean something like "much" or "a large amount of"? I once argued in HolQeD that all Klingon nouns can be used as count nouns, and the phrase {'ul law'} seems to fit that hypothesis. bI'reng