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.