tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 28 10:44:19 2009
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Re: Adding grammar (was: RE: Ditransitive reflexives)
Okrand puts his phone number out for anybody to look at and/or contact him. Â He's on speed dial on my phone :)
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From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:05:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Adding grammar  (was:  RE: Ditransitive reflexives)
> And that actually brings me to my larger question. What
> happens in the culture of tlhIngan Hol if there is found an
> area of the grammar that seems problematic and/or just
> missing and the fluent speakers have an intuition (generally
> agreed upon) about it?? Does that become another resource? Or
> are speakers not 'allowed' to add their own intuitions to the grammar?
The consensus is that we do not "add" anything to the language. Â But the good news is that we do
still have contact with Okrand. Â We can discuss these bits with him. Â Sometimes he will, on the
spot, confirm our intuition, and "reveal" (not add) this new bit of grammar/vocabulary. Â Sometimes
he will take the time to think about it and reveal the information at a later event/interview. Â And
sometimes we don't get any revelation, forcing us to find some way to handle it; whether recast or
ignore it.
DloraH