tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 19 06:50:18 1994
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Re: maSQib'a'
- From: HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maSQib'a'
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 18:44:34 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Coz" at Aug 10, 94 03:43:36 am
KoSneHvo':
> >...[stuff charghwI' used to evade his failure to concisely say "eclpise"]
> >
> >Cute, charghwI'. But seriously, if this concept needs a form of expression, I
> >would suggest {maSQIb'a'}.
> >
> > Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos
> >
> Question: what is the difference between "maSQib" and "maS Qib"? Am I
> correct in guessing that it is something like the difference between
> "moon-shadow" and "moon's shadow"?
More or less.
One is a compund noun, the otehr is a noun-noun construction. Somewhere,
we decided that compound nous are more or less a noun-noun construction
smooshed together. Or something.
--tQ
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