Re: A little entertainment

Irina Rempt wrote:
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> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Sally Caves wrote:
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> > > >> >        Il lorfa-vim rinil beto revpomennyve elry ke.
> > > >> >        The she-wolf with-eating-of-the-boy I saw.
>
> > "I saw the with-eating-boy wolf" is much more ambiguous.
>
> Could it also mean "I saw the boy-eating wolf" in the sense of a
> habitual boy-eater, not just the one particular boy that she
> devoured?
Why yes, I think that would be quite appropriate.  Whether she
did it once or does it continuously, in T. she's a boy-eating-she-
wolf!  No three-strikes and you're out.

I'll probably have to find some way to suggest that someone is
a single and non-repeating perpetrator of one crime.  But you
know how once ya dunnit, you're branded.

Sally
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