tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 14 17:12:48 1997
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Re: "Grammarian" 'oS nuq
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>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:22:20 -0800
>From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
>
>> >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.
>
>I thought noun-verb constructs were strictly out of bounds. Did we get
>some new info on this?
Not that I know (though I may be mistaken). The mailing list has used
"pabpo'" since its early days, mostly erroneously (even if it's been
approved, it wasn't legal when it was invented), and stuck with it mostly
due to history, recognizing it was not official or even correctly
constructed.
~mark
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