why not just say the next word was chosen randomly? <mu’tlheghvetlh ghItlhtaHvIS mu’ veb wIvmeH ‘al mu’vetlh.> (Or maybe <mu’ ‘al wIvpu’>?) “While writing that sentence, for the purpose of choosing the next word, the word was random.” (Or “a random word was chosen”). —jevreH Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 26, 2020, at 08:46, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

I've wondered how to say "the following words are written in random order". And I found two ways to say it:

Suppose that we'll talk about a specific group of words, which will appear in sentence, like "I like spaghetti, pizza, steaks, and hamburgers". Perhaps, before this sentence we could say one of the following.

chIchHa' mu'tlhegh vebDaq Hoch Soj (mu') Daq vIwIvpu'. The location of each word at the following sentence has been selected unintentionally.

or

mu'tlhegh vebDaq Haw Hoch Soj (mu') Daq. At the next sentence the place of each word is random.

Of course, the thing to wonder would be whether the word {Daq} could be used to express "the specific place in the sentence which is occupied by a word", and I could have sworn that we had a noun {lan} meaning "place" in the general sense, but I checked and the only thing that we have is the verb {lan} for "to place".

So, for lack of a better alternative, I'd use {Daq} anyway.

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On 6/26/2020 8:45 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:

I've wondered how to say "the following words are written in random order".

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