<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8031"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038"><br>For me, the N1-N2 construction has always meant that the set N2 is restricted to the subset represented by N1. Every single canon usage of this construction fits this interpretation, even numbers and titles.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038">{yaS taj} 'of the universal set of all possible knives, the officer's" = the officer's knife.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">{romuluS HIq} of the set of liquors, the one from/made by Romulans</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">{rugh bIQSIp} of the types of hydrogen, the anti-matter kind</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">{voQSIp betgham} of the universal set of liquids, the one made from nitrogrn</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">{cha' Dujmey} of the universal set of ships, two of them</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">{qIrq HoD} of the universal set of captains, the one who is Kirk</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">Trying to interpret N1-N2 in the opposite way, that N2 restricts or explains N1 is a kind of 'special pleading", usually using English as the basis of the interpretation. Also, if N1-N2 can be either pattern, it is only possible to tell which is being used by working backwards from the English again.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">But if you understand N1-N2 to be that N1 restricts N2, it works in Klingon every single time, without confusion.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470417990356_8038" dir="ltr">ter'eS</div></div></body></html>