<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Lieven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I also think you wouldn't be particularly wrong if you said *chevmeH tlhoy'* instead of *chevwI' tlhoy',* for example. It would be like the difference between /border wall/ and /wall of the border:/ one is said and the other isn't, but the other is still perfectly understandable.</blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it's literally the difference between "dividing wall" and "divider wall". The first one defines the wall by its purpose. The second one says what kind of wall it is. They both work to describe or name the same thing.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But on the other hand, {pe'wI' taj} sounds strange, doesn't it?</blockquote></div><br>Similarly, a "cutter knife" sounds less normal to me than a "cutting knife".<br><br>-- ghunchu'wI'</div></div>