<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>As if English, or any other language were ever completed. My granddaughter is still inventing it.</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 2, 2024, at 11:30 PM, Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Am 03.12.2024 um 02:36 schrieb Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol:<br><blockquote type="cite">All of this implies that the formation of the language is complete.<br></blockquote><br>I do not agree. Even though the language (especially Klingon, of course)<br>is not complete, the action of inventing or creating it, is complete.<br><br>As per definition of a language, Klingon is a complete language. It<br>fullfills everything that is needed to be called a language. Using<br>{-lI'} on the process of the creation sounds like it's not usable yet.<br>In the year 1983, one could have said that Okrand is working on the<br>language, combined with {-lI'}. But when he published TKD, he was done<br>with it: {Hol chenmoHta'.}<br>--<br>Lieven L. Litaer<br>aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br>https://tlhInganHol.com<br>https://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonLanguage<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>