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Re: Comparison of tasks

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: Comparison of tasks
• Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:11:04 -0500

David A. Terhune writes:
>        Can the noun comparison be used in the same fashion for verb
>comparisons?  Can I say, for example:
>
>nuv HoH ngeD law' veSDuj HoH ngeD pus
>
>to mean "it is easier to kill a person than to kill a warship" ?

The {law'/puS} construction can only be used to compare nouns.
It can't be extended to compare verbs in general.

In this particular case, though, you got lucky: {HoH} is also a noun
meaning "killing", so your sentence means exactly what you want it to.
"The killing of a person is easier than the killing of a warship."

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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