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