[Tlhingan-hol] Noun cases

[André Müller]

But there is no such convention. And Klingon doesn't behave much
differently case-wise. The only moderately uncommon thing might be that the
topic/focus marker -'e' behaves like a case. That's not so weird.

So I don't quite see your point here. MO didn't break any convention,
because a) there is no such convention, and b) because Klingon cases behave
quite non-exotically.

On Nov 29, 2011 1:48 AM, "Lucifuge Rofocale" <fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > Why would Klingon follow any sort of rules or models followed in Latin?
>
> My point exactly. MO may have created the structure of tlhIngan Hol nouns
> to deliberately break the convention that nouns have to have specific
> declensions into the cases listed here.
>
> > > > > 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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