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David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: about
• Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:34:21 -0500
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From: "Alan Anderson" <[email protected]>

> ja' QeS lagh:
> >I was just wondering whether something like {tlhIngan Hol'e' SoQ
> >vImuch} would be legal, and not interpreted as a bad noun-noun
construction.
>
> Why use {-'e'} at all?
>
> tlhIngan Hol SoQ vImuch - "I present a lecture about Klingon."


I agree with ghunchu'wI', but to answer your question, yes, I'd consider
your sentence legal.  {tlhIngan Hol'e' SoQ} is an illegal noun-noun
construction, so it can't be interpreted as one.  The only interpretation
left is that {tlhIngan Hol'e'} is a topic, and {SoQ} is the object.

(Not that someone can't make a mistake in interpretation, mind you.)

SuStel
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