On 4/30/2020 10:01 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
So, yes; from personal experience I understand that a native speaker doesn't care the slightest, about these details.. However, I do believe that it's always better if we know how things work, even if in the end we tend not to (over)analyze things in the actual everyday use of klingon.
I don't think you follow me. I'm saying there is no prescribed correct answer. The correct answer to "How does the grammar work?" is "However it's used by the consensus of its speakers." Klingon is complicated by the fact that we have almost no access to its native speakers, so we cannot easily sample them to determine their consensus. But if what evidence we have shows us that Klingons freely order these suffixes however they want, then that's grammatically correct, regardless of what a textbook prescribes as rules. So you can construct elaborate examples and convoluted logic to describe the inner workings of the language, but in the end none of that matters if it doesn't agree with how Klingons actually speak. A grammar textbook is merely a description of a language, not the language itself. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name