[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping

[Lieven Litaer]

Am 08.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Philip Newton:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 20:48, Qov<robyn at flyingstart.ca>  wrote:
>>> scissors - cha''etlh pe'wI'
> cha' 'etlh are two blades... is there a space missing? Is {cha''etlh}
> {cha' 'etlh}, just smooshed together? Or something else?

looks like "two-blade cutter".

BTW, this one is a good example showing that the creator of Klingon is 
an english speaker. Not every language (e.g. German) does see the 
scissors as a pair. scissors is plural, because it has two blades. 
French does the same: les ciseaux. In german, it's singular: eine Schere.

Lieven.