[Tlhingan-hol] plural of <De' jengva'>

[Lieven Litaer]

Am 17.11.2011 01:14, ghItlh De'vID jonpIn:

> MO gave the example of "foots", referring to the footlights
> at the front of the stage (one footlight is a "foot"; more than one are
> "foots"), and noted that a word doesn't necessary pluralise in the same
> way when it is used to refer to different things.

Please note that this word seems to be a short form of "footlight", it's 
not the plural of "foot".

 > However, he gave his
> characteristically noncommittal answer regarding how the Klingons do it,
> so we don't have a firm answer either way (or at least I didn't catch
> one, as there was a lot of crosstalking and digressions maja'chuqtaHvIS).

Yes, indeed, there was a lot of crosstalking.
But there is one thing I remembered, and I thought that was a decision, 
all at the beginning. (that's why I didn't follow the rest of it)

When you asked me in the first place for the plural of {De' jengva'}, I 
answered that it would follow the standard rules, so {De' ngop} are CD's 
and {De' jengva'mey} wouls have the "scattered all about" meaning. I 
then looked over to MO, asking "isn't it?" and he just nodded and said a 
confirming "yes, of course." It might not have been the exact words, but 
he looked like to say "Strange question. What else would it be?"

Next, adding to this sitiuation, we must remember that the TalkNow 
Software is written on how "a visiting klingon would call a thing he 
sees on earth". Form this point of view, apparently (my guess) Klingons 
don't have CDs. That's why the klingon calls it a "data-plate". And the 
plural of plate is {ngop}, of course.

Lieven.