selskiski

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selskiski describes a style of tanru that is the inverse of the usual order of tanru. In other words, the tertau ("noun/verb", metaphorically se skicu thing described) comes before the seltau ("adjective/adverb", metaphorically skicu explainer)

Why?

This style has a chief advantage over the normal, English-like ordering of "adjective-noun"; namely, the selbri-unit that describes the subject is uttered first. There is a reason the military uses it (c.f. "Meal, Ready to Eat").

Many languages other than English uses this style of compound-words, e.g. French, Spanish, and Malay.

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