9 Dec
2019
9 Dec
'19
9:23 a.m.
On 12/9/2019 9:14 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I want to say: "how many ships are there ?"
Do I say {Duj 'ar tu'lu' ?} ?
Or do I say {Duj 'ar lutu'lu'} ?
Does the new insight on {'ar}, "outweight" the "pedantic" flavor of the {lutu'lu'} ?
Or is our beloved {tu'lu'} too tough a nut to crack, even for the newly revealed {'ar} knowledge, thus being able to survive it ?
*Duj 'ar tu'lu'?* *tu'lu'* doesn't "outweigh" the new rule. When you use *tu'lu',* you don't conjugate, so the issue never arises. Before we got the new rule, using *tu'lu'* was one of the few safe ways we could deal with the *'ar* plurality question, because *tu'lu'* ignores plurality. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name