On 6/25/2018 8:03 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
Am 23.06.2018 um 19:45 schrieb SuStel:
This is interesting. Marc Okrand gave a grammar lecture at Mythmoot V yesterday (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/276418848), and when he says there are three parts of speech (around 19 minutes in), he names them *DIp*/nouns,/*wot*/verbs,/ and *latlh*/everything else./
I would guess that he just forgot about what they were called in TKD and just from his mind translated "others" literally as {latlh}.
And staying "in the game": naming the {chuvmey} as {latlh} still makes sense. {chuvmey} perhabs is not really a grammatical term, but just a way to refer to anything that's not a verb or a noun (or suffix, of course).
It would have to be the other way round: "By far the bulk of Klingon words are nouns and verbs. There are a few others which, probably as an expedient, Klingon grammarians lump together in a group called chuvmey leftovers."
So Marc may be calling them latlh when giving a talk at Mythmoot, but chuvmey certainly is a grammatical term.
Maybe Morskan or Krotmag or some other dialect yet to be described doesn’t have the word “chuv”, so people speaking those dialects call the chuvmey “latlh”.
Maybe, but Marc was teaching the standard dialect. Besides, if it
had been Morskan, it would have been called lats.
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