<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">> Why would Klingon follow any sort of rules or models followed in Latin?<br><br>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.<br><br><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1580326065">> > > > Do you think that Marc Okrand may have deliberately designed the language to break the <br>> > > > convention of noun cases?<br><div class="yiv1580326065gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1580326065gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div class="yiv1580326065im"><br>> > > What convention?<br><br></div>> > The convention that nouns have to have recognisable declensions, following the model of Latin.<br>
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