Klingon language attitudes

[Mark A. Mandel]

RonButters-vo':

        >>>
The grammar sketched in Okrand's work purports to be descriptive, not
prescriptive, right? That is, this is what Klingons do do, not what they
"should" do.
        <<<

Right.

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 god forbid that a mavin should tell a real Klingon what he or she "should"
do. In suggesting that correcting a speaker of Klingon about language could
be dangerous, I was thinking only of native speakers, who are known to be
prideful and belicose.
        <<<

An opinion that is supported by the excerpts I quoted about the
classification of the suffix <-Ha'>.


-- Mark
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