Am 09.06.2016 um 12:01 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
Although, I cannot understand something.. If someone asks 'oqranD, at the coming qep'a', won't 'oqranD, be able to provide with a clear, specific and unambiguous answer ?
Hehe... You'll understand it when you ask him yourself. :-)
I mean, how come so many years, questions such as this, continue to remain unanswered ?
Well, first of all, there are many many ambiguous and unanswered questions like this, so Okrand would have a lot of work to clarify all of those (most of them were clarified sometimes by later examples, so there was no need to ask him afer a while.) Next, Okrand cannot always answer immediately. He has to think about it first. He usually says he need to think about it first (i.e. look in his notes) and then he may or may not give an answer. It's possible that he forgets, or he just did not find a satisfying answer. It does not work like when you go to a native speaker and ask how to say something. Okrand wants to answer such questions in a way that the answer works with the rest of his set up rules. Sometimes Okrand even does not want to give the answer, so he just explains that "Maltz is not very talkative lately." :-) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net