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The author provides a linguistic note on the Pal-ul-don language, explaining the plural formation rule and his decision to use the English plural for the word 'gorge' for readability.
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The author provides a linguistic note on the Pal-ul-don language, explaining the plural formation rule and his decision to use the English plural for the word 'gorge' for readability.
Key passages
“I have used the Pal-ul-don word for gorge with the English plural, which is not the correct native plural form.”
The author chose to add an English 's' to the Pal-ul-don word for gorge, even though that is not how the natives form plurals.
Explains a deliberate stylistic choice in the text.
“the plurals are formed simply for all words in the Pal-ul-don language by doubling the initial letter of the word, as k’kor , gorges, pronounced as though written kakor , the a having the sound of a in sofa.”
In Pal-ul-don, plurals are made by repeating the first letter of a word, so 'gorge' becomes 'k'kor' (pronounced 'kakor').
Describes the native grammatical rule for pluralization.