<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">While what you’ve written is grammatically correct, it is ambiguous without context. It could be a Romulan probe which seeks and sometimes kills. It could be a probe that seeks and sometimes kills Romulans. In the canon example, we know that it’s a probe associated with Romulans. It’s not a probe that kills Romulans. The story that included the quote gave us that context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we had not had any context, the original could have meant a probe that hunts and kills Romulans. The original was ambiguous in terms of the grammar, but context made it clear.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 10, 2022, at 8:09 AM, 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="">I don't think this could be wrong, but I'll ask anyway to make certain.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">We have the Ca'Non:</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej Hoghbogh nejwI'</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">If I remember correctly, charghwI' once wrote that it isn't "a probe which locates and kills Romulans", but rather "a probe of the Romulans which hunts and kills".</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">But let's assume that the meaning is "a probe which locates and kills Romulans". Suppose I write:</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej rut Hoghbogh nejwI'</div><div dir="auto" class="">probe which locates and occasionally kills romulans</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Would it be correct? Could we place a non-ovs element before the second {-bogh} of a {-bogh}'ed noun?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">(Which in this case is an adverb, but could also be a time stamp, and/or a locative).<br class=""><br class=""><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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