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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 29, 2022, at 2:01 PM, D qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">SuStel:<div dir="auto" class="">> "The first who flees" could mean different</div><div dir="auto" class="">> things:<div dir="auto" class="">> "The first to flee." Multiple people flee,</div><div dir="auto" class="">> and you're talking about the</div><div dir="auto" class="">> first one of those.</div><div dir="auto" class="">> "The first (who happens to flee)." There</div><div dir="auto" class="">> are multiple people, and you're</div><div dir="auto" class="">> talking about the first one, and this first</div><div dir="auto" class="">> one happens to be fleeing.</div><div dir="auto" class="">> Nothing is said about the others fleeing.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Interesting. I hadn't ever noticed this ambiguity.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">And in fact, thinking now of this matter, I realize that the same can happen in Greek too. But rarely is any ambiguity actually noticed because context clarifies the intended meaning.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">-- <br class="">Dana'an<br class=""><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br class="">Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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