On 2/4/2020 8:59 AM, Hugh Son puqloD wrote:
On Feb 4, 2020, at 01:05, De'vID<de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm still interested in people's*opinions* of a construction like {cha'logh neH} though. Would they accept it? Would they use it? I use this construction from time to time without thinking about it, usually followed by a realization that I don’t actually know if I can use it. I would accept it if somebody else used it, though I am fairly permissive and accept many things which I know not to be supported by canon.
If I were just a reader coming across this, I would silently acknowledge it to myself and move on. If I were an editor for something that was trying to be formally correct, I would ask the author to reword it to avoid uncertain grammar. If I were an editor for something that wasn't trying to be formally correct and needed the *neH* there for metrical or other reasons, I would let it pass. If I were an editor for something that wasn't trying to be formally correct but didn't need the *neH* to be there for those reasons, I would ask the author to reword it to avoid uncertain grammar. As a writer, I would follow those same guidelines. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name