[96683] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "up to" or "as many as"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Fri Jul 12 12:11:36 2013
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>,
"tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:09:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <51E01E72.5040206@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
> Sure, but this is not one of those cases.
Aye, and so long as it's merely a stylistic preference, that's satisfactory. I don't really get your reasoning with basing it on which idea is most fundamental, however.
> jav [DuHbe'bogh Doch]
> DuHbe'bogh [jav Doch]
>
> Doing it the latter way also risks confusing it with {[DuHbe'bogh jav]
> Doch} "a thing of impossible sixes." It's unlikely that the former would
> be mistaken for the nonsensical "a thing of an impossibled six," since
> one does not expect {DuH} to take an object.
Fair enough, but I personally feel that introducing an unnecessary [relative phrase] + [noun] compound is more of a con than that potential ambiguity.
Still, I suppose what I can take away from this discussion is that if ever I run into a similar case where that ambiguity would be more of a hassle, I can try moving the number. DaHjaj vay' vIghojpu'.
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