<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Everyone reinvents every language he learns. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">lay'SIv</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 8:58 AM Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>As if English, or any other language were ever completed. My granddaughter is still inventing it.</div><br id="m_-3079898078682987469lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><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 <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><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><a href="https://tlhInganHol.com" target="_blank">https://tlhInganHol.com</a><br><a href="https://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonLanguage" target="_blank">https://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonLanguage</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" target="_blank">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org" target="_blank">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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