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Re: [N VQ] N

Dar'Qang ([email protected])

• From: Dar'Qang <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [N VQ] N
• Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:44:42 -0500
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At 11:30 PM 8/15/2004, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>ja' Dar'Qang:
> >Can I use a noun modified by a verb of quality as the first noun in a
> >noun-noun construction?
>
>Sure.  Skybox SP1 demonstrates such a use:
>   ...tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq...

maj.  qatlho'.


> >For example, can I (loosely) express the idea of "the long road's 
> stones" as:
> >
> >{He tIq naghmey}?
>
>You could, though the mismatch between {He} and "road", and the ambiguity
>of {tIq} (be long?  heart?), make this a poor proof of concept example.  I
>think you'd need a pretty clear context in order to be confident it would
>be read as intended.

jIyaj.  Good points.


Dar'Qang
qo''a'lIj DachenmoHtaH 

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