<div dir="ltr">I'm not aware of such a "convention" in linguistics. Maybe that's a common convention among conlangers, I don't know.<br>From a typological perspective, Klingon noun cases really aren't very exotic. I don't see where MO might have tried to break any conventions concerning noun cases.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/29 Lucifuge Rofocale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk">fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_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="im">> > Do you think that Marc Okrand may have deliberately designed the language to break the convention of <br>
> > noun cases?<br><br>> What convention?<br><br></div>The convention that nouns have to have recognisable declensions, following the model of Latin.<br><br><br> <div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px">
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