tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 07 17:52:44 2001
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Re: Re grammar highlight each day: -vaD
Sian and Roger:
> Summary - describing Klingon by means of terms used for Indo-European
> grammar is probably unhelpful to learners and certainly unhelpful to me,
> is an inefficient way to teach languages, and is inaccurate, since
> Klingon is not Indo-European.
As I wrote in another post - I'm a native speaker of an inflected language
(Czech, 7 noun cases), from which point of view the concept of `dative' is
quite natural to me.
> And in particular I find unhelpful and irritating the insistence on
> forcing the language into an Indo-European straitjacket.
Point taken.
Jiri
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I can't figure out whether keeping all my friends in a tickle file would be
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