[tlhIngan Hol] Noun-noun constructions with relative clauses

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 02:34:51 PDT 2021


On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 01:19, Will Martin <willmartin2 at mac.com> wrote:

> For that matter, it could mean “The probe which finds and kills Romulans.”
>
> We have similar ambiguity in English. If we said someone was a “Romulan
> Killer”, we could either mean he’s a person who kills Romulans, or that it
> is a he’s a Romulan who kills. Context fixes the ambiguity in either
> Language.
>

HeS Suvchugh HeS SuvwI' 'ej qul Suvchugh qul SuvwI', vaj nuq Suv tlhab
SuvwI'? -- jo'rIj qarlIn

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De'vID
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