tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 03 07:13:46 1996
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Re[5]: KLI Fonts/Punctuation
- From: [email protected] (Frank M Truelove)
- Subject: Re[5]: KLI Fonts/Punctuation
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 10:09:35 -0400
Okay. I defer.
But still, I think it's safe to suggest that punctuation is unnecessary in
Klingon, especially with the practice of one-sentence-per-line
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Subject: Re: Re[3]: KLI Fonts
Author: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]> at Internet
Date: 6/3/96 6:22 AM
I don't think it's appropriate to call the Japanese particle "ka" a
"spoken question mark". Like the Esperanto particle "cxu", or the
Bengali pronoun "ki", "ka" just transforms a statement into a yes-or-no
question. If a question is not yes-or-no, you don't use "ka". So it
doesn't really serve as punctuation. It is, in fact, identical in
function to something we already know about in Klingon: the verb suffix
{-'a'}.
[email protected] (Frank M Truelove) writes:
\ Egyptian and Japanese have "spoken question marks" -- ah, and ka
\ respectively. Is it possible that tlhIngan has similar words?
\
\ --bangteH
\ aka Captain Jean-Luc pIqaD
\
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