On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 16:41, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 8/30/2018 10:05 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
This topic is returning very often, and Okrand seems to be "not at all picky about that." (email to the mailing list from loghaD, 11/16/14)
The creator of the language hardly needs to worry about whether words he can make up at the drop of a hat need to have spaces in them.
Okrand is also more concerned with spoken Klingon than written. His transcription system is just a description of pronunciation, and you don't usually pronounce spaces between words. So when pronounced, *HoDlupDujHomquS* is identical to *HoD lupDujHom quS** chair of the captain's shuttlecraft.*
Two examples of this from the early vocabulary (TKD): yuQjIjDIvI' DIvI'may'Duj And then there's (TKDA): ra'ghomquv yejquv And later (KGT): 'Iwghargh So I think there's some hints in the early vocabulary that he had considered writing noun-noun constructions as single words, and sticking adjectival verbs to the end of the noun, at some point, but maybe changed his mind. -- De'vID