[Tlhingan-hol] Type 5 on first noun

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 05:15:18 PST 2016


bI'reng:
> SuStel is arguing that MO is repeatedly making not just a grammatical error,
> but a major grammatical error--one that renders the phrase meaningless--

Here, again, there is the difference between the descriptivist and
prescriptivist approaches. Clearly, the phrase isn't meaningless.
Everyone understands it.

bI'reng:
> MO made a rule that he regularly breaks, and most of us are okay with it.

It hasn't been established that he's broken any rules. There are
exactly two apparent exceptions, one of which is a chapter title, and
one of which is a label. Most people seem to be comfortable with the
fact that chapter titles and labels on diagrams don't have to exactly
follow the grammar described in TKD.

-- 
De'vID



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