<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="">I think the REAL mystery here is why he didn’t call it {romuluSngan SammeH ‘ej HoHmeH nejwI’}. Hunting and killing is the purpose of the device, not merely a description of its behavior. Then the model of its word order would have been even clearer.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 10, 2022, at 11:31 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="">SuStel:<div dir="auto" class="">> You wouldn't say Sambogh 'ej romuluSngan HoHbogh </div><div dir="auto" class="">> nejwI', would you? Of course not. Ask yourself why not.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">(If I understand this matter correctly), I wouldn't say {Sambogh 'ej romuluSngan HoHbogh nejwI'} for the following reasons:</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">1. Reading it from left to right it isn't immediately clear who is being located and by who.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">2. (After reading this thread) I'd understand it as "he/they who is/are located by him/them, and by a probe who kills Romulans".</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">3. There's no already stated noun which is then being replaced by a pronoun (if that's how we call words like "he, she, they, etc).</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">-- <br class="">Dana'an<br class=""><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" class="">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br class="">Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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