[lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 9/24/07, Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After googling, I found one non-authoritive account stating that
> adj-noun-noun combos should always be considered adj (noun noun)
> unless there is a hyphen between the first two words.

Sounds right, at least for most cases. But "another" is a special
adjective, as it includes a determiner, so "another-world map" won't
really work either.

"Another World map" seems to work with the (AW)M parsing only when
"Another World" is the name of a place, similar to "United States map".
For example: "There was an Another World map on the wall".

>  I
> would say that adj-noun-noun combos will be intended and interpreted
> either way depending on the context, intonation, etc. in casual
> conversation and writing.

For normal adjectives, yes. For "another", unless used as a name,
what context could give the "(another noun) noun" reading?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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