tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 14 09:12:30 1997
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Re: "Grammarian" 'oS nuq
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>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:14:00 -0800
>From: [email protected]
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>In a message dated 97-01-13 20:15:08 EST, SuSvaj asks:
>
><< "Grammarian" 'oS nuq? tlhIngan Hol mu' wIghaj'a'?
> >>
>
>I have seen {pab po'wI'} used on this listserv and in HolQeD to express
>"grammarian."
The list tends to use "pabpo'", though I have never heard that this usage
was approved in canon (it's a noun-verb compound). Then again, someone
said Okrand did approve it. I may not be remembering properly.
>Beware, though. From recent postings on this listserv regarding "canon,"
>perhaps we should narrow our minds even further and use NOTHING from such
>sources. This means we get no words from even HolQeD unless they are clearly
>marked as Marc Okrand's canon!!! No expanded projects such as "Hamlet"
>unless MO does them.
Not "no expanded projects," but "no canon." The contents of Hamlet are not
canon. The contents of HolQeD are not canon, unless marked as being by
Marc Okrand (as most of the words introduced there are). Doesn't make them
not worth mentioning, but they're not canon. Particularly, if a word or
construction appears to break a rule or to invent a new one, it really
should be considered very cautiously.
~mark
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