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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] One dog or five cats ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Sat Sep 23 04:01:53 2017

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On 9/22/2017 9:09 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> ok, I understand. However, if one wrote {nenbogh 'ej yoHbogh wa' 
> Human}, then that would be correct too, right ?

There's nothing technically wrong with it. However, it violates my sense 
of adjective order. We're not dealing exactly with adjectives here, but 
the effect is the same.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/2017 9:09 AM, mayqel qunenoS
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAP7F2cLegfSZZRe855GrGz-sJa449EB8R79389jSb+d5aBrKAw@mail.gmail.com"><span
        style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">ok, I
        understand. However, if one wrote </span><span
        style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">{</span><span
        style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">nenbogh 'ej
        yoHbogh wa' Human}, then that would be correct too, right ?</span></blockquote>
    <p>There's nothing technically wrong with it. However, it violates
      my sense of adjective order. We're not dealing exactly with
      adjectives here, but the effect is the same.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary</a><br>
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