26 Jan
2022
26 Jan
'22
11:10 a.m.
On 1/26/2022 11:05 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Usually, when I read a compound word which would normally be two separate ones, I become confused thinking that it's a new word which I don't know.
So, in things that I write, I avoid omitting the gap between noun-noun constructions.
And that's why the convention exists. Not because it's "canonical," not because it's a rule of Klingon grammar, but because it helps us recognize the difference between a lexicalized word and a phrase that we made up ourselves. Okrand doesn't have to figure out which words are lexicalized and which aren't; we do. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name