[Tlhingan-hol] Noun cases

[Qov]

All kinds of languages with little or no Latin ancestry have been 
harshly mashed into that mould because someone sometime around the 
13th century wrote a Latin grammar that became THE standard for not 
only all subsequent Latin grammars but all grammars of all languages 
compiled ever after. It's the reason people object to English split 
infinitives, for example.

So Klingon wouldn't follow such rules but a linguist compiling a 
language could easily have deliberately defied future attempts to put 
Klingon in those boxes.

- Qov

At 16:07 28/11/2011, Noah Bogart wrote:
>Why would Klingon follow any sort of rules or models followed in Latin?
>
>On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Lucifuge Rofocale 
><<mailto:fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk>fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Do you think that Marc Okrand may have deliberately designed 
> the language to break the convention of
> > > noun cases?
>
> > What convention?
>
>The convention that nouns have to have recognisable declensions, 
>following the model of Latin.
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