tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 19 00:26:25 1998
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Re: How do I say...
- From: staze <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: How do I say...
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:26:27 -0700
>There indeed is no punctuation used for the Klingon text presented in
>The Klingon Dictionary. However, the Fleer/Skybox trading cards have
>always had punctuation (in both the greeked pseudo-pIqaD and the text
>in Romanized spelling), and the book The Klingon Way gives us Klingon
>phrases with punctuation exactly as we would use them in English. So
>go ahead and put in periods, commas, semicolons, and even exclamation
>points. We're representing a spoken language using symbols available
>on our computer keyboards, and punctuation can help convey intonation
>and pauses.
yeah, just another example of a language becoming too English. =) I
mean, Japanese is the same way... no punctuation in traditional Japanese,
but now with communications with America... punctuation is common place
in the language. =/
-StaZ
Qapla'