<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On May 20, 2019, at 06:23, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" preoffsettop="630"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I would expect for "tea cup and saucer" to be {Dargh HIvje' Dargh jengva' je}.</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That would be like saying "teacup and teasaucer", which is fine (if a little redundant).</div><div dir="auto"></div></div></blockquote><br><div>It also doesn’t prevent one from misreading it as “tea, cup, tea, and saucer”.</div><div><br></div><div>Punctuation can help, although, as always, since it’s not required, one shouldn’t assume that an unpunctuated list be interpreted in any particular way:</div><div><br></div><div>{Dargh HIvje', jengva' je} teacup and saucer </div><div>{Dargh, HIvje', jengva' je} tea, cup, and saucer</div><div><br></div><div>I like to joke that the Klingon version of the Oxford Comma can be used on a list with only two members.</div><div><br></div><div>If you don’t mind the risk of sounding like someone from the upper social classes, or like you’re speaking in an old-fashioned manner, you could also always say {tu'lum jengva' je}</div></body></html>