[86238] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jul 9 19:52:16 2009
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:49:36 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <546696.79666.qm@web82605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>
>
>>>> It's special. It can't be interpolated or
>> expanded. It must remain
>>>> fixed. Period. Done. Game, set, and match.
>> rIntaH.
>>> Absence of evidence /= evidence of absence.
>> I didn't claim there was any evidence.
>
> You're claiming that since we've never seen the suffix {-'a'} (for
> example) used with {law'/puS}, its use is absolutely impossible,
> whereas all that proves is that we've never seen it. Unless or until
> MO rules definitively "No", it remains a possibility.
Take away the "since we've never seen" part. I am making a statement
unfounded by any evidence. It has only the force of opinion and
conservatism. I speak prescriptively, as a style guide, not
descriptively. It is not a claim, it is a directive.
I did NOT say it can't be done because we haven't seen it.
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