[tlhIngan Hol] What would you do ?

Alan Anderson qunchuy at alcaco.net
Fri May 31 07:21:19 PDT 2019


Homophones permit ambiguity wherever they appear. They aren’t good examples of a potential for ambiguity due to the grammar.

-- ghunchu'wI'

> On May 31, 2019, at 8:42 AM, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
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>> On May 31, 2019, at 05:56, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> One could probably concoct an example of a construction where a noun phrase is ambiguously acting as either a subject of the subordinated clause or as a time stamp of the {'e'}-clause, but I imagine examples where genuine ambiguity arises would be very few and far between.
> 
> I agree that this is unlikely to happen with any frequency but concocting pathological examples is a hobby of mine. For this case one needn’t look much further than my favorite ambiguity source, {wej}:
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> Here’s another with {DaH}:
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