[lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/24/07, Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For me anyway, this specific example almost certainly would mean
> Another (World Map) because:
>
> 1) World Map is almost a compound word--very often used together.
> 2) The context would indicate most likely that Another (World Map) is
> intended. Very very few times do we discuss maps of other worlds, so
> unless you're at a sci-fi convention or something, it's almost
> certainly A(WM).

I doubt that's the reason. I think for any pair of nouns,
"another noun1 noun2" can only be read as "another (noun1 noun2)".

For example "another world atmosphere" could olnly have the unlikely
meaning of "another (world atmosphere)" and not the semantically more
plausible "(another world) atmosphere", at least if you use it in a sentence.
I don't know what happens if you use it as stand alone, but my non-native
judgement would still find it strange. That's because "another world",
"this world", "that world" can't be used as modifiers, as they include
a determiner. "Another world's map" should be fine.

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