tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 05 18:25:00 1996
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Re: Noun order? (Big mistake by me)
- From: [email protected] (Ford Prefect)
- Subject: Re: Noun order? (Big mistake by me)
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:26:42 +1000
I, at the time obviously not exercising the grey matter, wrote:
>Chances are, I simply do not know enough about the language to comment, but
>in the passage of this message [qay' wanI'] I noticed something that at least
>looked to me as a little strange:
>
>[snip snip snip]
>
>> jupwI' pongna' vIQoychu'. pay' QumwI' vIbuSchoH. motlhbe'...
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>[snip snip snip]
>
>I read this underlined construct as "My friend of the definite name", as TKD
>suggests - N1-N2 to be read as N1 of the N2 or N2's N1. If the word order is
>reversed, I might read "The definite name of my friend", which seems to make
>much more sense to me.
>
>Like I said, the chances are that I am the one wrong (as I have been many a
>time before...)
We apologize for the inconvenience. _Please_ do not kill me for this one.
I was not my fault.
Ford.
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