Re: mangpu' or negh?

[Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>]

> I think using {-mey} in this instance would just be considered  
> insulting:
> {mangmey} "the incapable-of-language soldiers".

You're thinking of the use of a "nonspeaking" possessive suffix where  
a "speaking" one is called for.  Using the "nonspeaking" plural on a  
speaking entity isn't insulting.  All it does is imply a "scattered  
about" meaning.

-- ghunchu'wI'