<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:48 AM, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If you like to avoid the strange {law' law'}, you might want to consider the recently disscovered verb {vItlh}. It was used in a phrase in DSC:<br>
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{Heghmey DISIQpu'. 'a DIvI' Hegh vItlh law' Heghmaj vItlh puS.}<br>
"We have suffered losses but the Federation has suffered far more."<span class="gmail-"></span><br></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What's interesting to me is that one of the first canon sentences for {vItlh} (from the Smithsonian Air and Space tour app) was a law'-puS construction: <span class="gmail-im">{DoDaj <span class="gmail-il">vItlh</span> law' wab Do <span class="gmail-il">vItlh</span> puS.} I wonder if it was coined specifically to avoid using {law'} twice in a row. (Even if that's true, I don't see why {law' law'} would itself be ungrammatical; maybe it just didn't fit Okrand's aesthetic sensibilities at the time.)<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-im"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-im"><br></span></div></div>