In the first Slovene book on military matters Andrej Komel (1829-1892), the founder of Slovene military terminology, instead of the German nominal forms that were then established, used interrogative clauses with modal meaning (how should something be done?) that the German terms did not cover. This traditional textbook method was used as teaching material to make military knowledge more accessible to Slovene soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army. Thus Komel initially abandoned the use of nominal forms, although he did consistently make use of them in subsequent books, in which he established himself as a Slovene military terminologist.
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