tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 22 07:52:05 1997
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double-booking of suffix positions
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: double-booking of suffix positions
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:11:52 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
"Robyn Stewart" <[email protected] wrote:-
> Your point that some useful-seeming combinations are forbidden by the rules
> of Klingon grammar is well taken, but your apparent implication that we
> should be allowed to use the banned combinations when they are not otherwise
> contradictory, is not.
I was not trying to make people disobey TKD etc. I realize that without set
grammar rules and a single established vocabulary there would be chaos and
Klingon would fast evolve into many dialects and factions. Past examples are
the Ido-schism in the Esperanto world, and the schism between Lojban and
Loglan. I am not the only one to complain about restrictions: ref. some of the
articles in HolQeD when Marc Okrand suddenly put -ghach on a short tether when
it looked like being useful in many constructions.