tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 02 03:37:25 1995
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conjunctions of more than two things
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: conjunctions of more than two things
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 06:33:03 EST
The only examples I find of conjunctions' usage involve exactly
two nouns or sentences. I donUt see any clues about what to do
with three or more nouns. I can guess, of course, but the result
isn't necessarily going to be understood. Here are two ways I
can think of to do it:
"this, that, and the other" -> {Dochvam Dochvetlh latlh je}
There's no particular reason this would be understood at all!
The "noun-noun" pairs can be read as "noun's noun" far too easily.
It gets even worse with more than three items.
"this-and-that and the other" -> {Dochvam Dochvetlh je latlh je}
At least this has a chance of getting the meaning across. I base
it on my interpretation of "noun noun conjunction" as a particularly
complex noun, but I don't claim to be interpreting it correctly.
There are two ways I see to extend this construction to four or
more items. {Dochvam Dochvetlh je Dochvetlh je latlh je} as sort
of a "nested" scheme, or {Dochvam Dochvetlh je Dochvetlh latlh je je}
as sort of "heirarchically" constructed. This last one looks very
bad as a general combination, but might be useful if I really wanted
to combine other combinations like {DeS 'uS je mIn Ho' je ghap}.
Is there an official way to do this?
-- ghunchu'wI'