fmawn «news, something to report»

[Plumps]

Is this word countable?

Not all languages treat 'news' as English does... In German it can be 'a/one news' (eine Neuigkeit) or 'many news' (viele Neuigkeiten). How is this handled in Na'vi? Can I say oel ayfmawnit stolawm*... ?

We have Frommer's sentence from the Earth Day message as slä lu oeru fmawno asìltsan*, which I don't quite know what to make of...

Thoughts?

[Kamean]

In my opinion - yes. And I saw someplace, about 3 or 4 months ago: Ayfmawniri irayo seiyi.

[Ftxavanga Txe′lan]

Well, if Frommer used the singular form of the word to talk about news (assuming the he did intend to say that exactly), the logical conclusion that I can see is that fmawn must already be plural and that no singular form exists. Would that make any sense? I think saying something like Oel pxaya fmawnit stolawm would be correct, but I'm not sure about the sentence you wrote. Because if the word in itself is already plural, then adding a plural infix probably wouldn't be necessary. But then, what about dual and trial? Can one specifically say "two/three news"? I don't think so, but oh well.

I'm also curious to know what you guys will think!

Edit: After being ninja'd by Kamean, it seems like my entire theory doesn't work anymore.

[Kamean]

Maybe you're right. In any case, we should ask Paul.

[Ftxavanga Txe′lan]

Maybe you're right. In any case, we should ask Paul.

Sran! There are so many things we would ask him if we could, actually.