Speaking of fonty type things, another
restriction I use is to make sure that the
apostrophe is vertical and straight and not
slanted or curved. I use slanted and/or curved
single quotes only in pairs to surround certain things.Â
lay'tel SIvten
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Qov
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I've switched over to these kinds of quotation
marks: «majQa'» Do they cause anyone any
problems? Â They should look like a little
nested version of << >>. I haven't quite worked
out the punctuation rules for them yet. The
French leave whitespace between the guillemets
(I called them guillemots before, but I looked
it up and that's a sort of auk) and the
punctuation, but most other languages that use
guillemets don't. Some of them use them
backwards, pointing towards rather than
enclosing the quoted text! In my experience
Russian doesn't usually use quotation marks at
all, just massive dashes. What do they do in
your language and do you think it's compatible
with Klingon? Anything is better than the
English style. This Wikipedia article has an
interesting list:
<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet.
(Curiously I'm in good company getting the
punctuation mixed up with the bird: I think it's
because <mot> means word, so there's an association there).
While I'm at it, what's your favourite font for
Klingon? Â Times New Roman? Â Garamond? Courier New?
And it's time someone programmed a simple
Klingon spelling/grammar checker for Open
Office. It shouldn't be too hard to do.
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vajar and crew are being guided through an
interdeck access tunnel by Qoreq, in order to ambush some qImyal-loyal troops.
CONTENT: Corpses, but no gore.
226
tojbogh to'
yev Qoreq. jatlh, «jonwI' jolpa' bIngDaq
maHtaH. manarghDI' neghvetlh 'emDaq Sajol.»
«majQa'», jatlh vajar. neghvetlh lujeyta'DI'
jonwI' choQ lujonmeH lotlhwI'pu' He rap
lughoSlaH.[268] lo'laH lojmIt ngaQHa'moH Qoreq
'ej pa' bejmeH loQ poSmoH. HurDaq be' ghogh Qoy
vajar. poSchoHchu' lojmIt 'ej Qoreq 'uchchoH vay' 'ej 'ochvo' luHchoH.
«Qoreq! chay'?» jatlh be'. 'och wovmoH Sech
tIH 'ej lIS'eghpu'DI' vajar mInDu', qaH'eng legh. ochvo' yongHa' ghom.
Quchbe'law' Qoreq. jatlh, «qatlh jolpa'Daq SoHtaH?»
jatlh qaH'eng, «chay' naDev SuSaH tlhIH?
bangwI'!» Hota'ro' 'uchchoH qaH'eng.
«SIbI' maQolnIS», jatlh vajar. may' to'chaj
QIj. Hung jIH lIS qaH'eng. veQ lI' ngaSbogh choQ
cha' HaSta, 'ach pa' SuvtaHbe' tlhachmey.
rInlaw' may'. lommeyvo' beHmey, nIch[266] je
boSlI' vajar lopno' jaHbe'pu'bogh tlhIngan negh
law''e'. va. tlhoy paS rep. ghIq Hung HaStaDaq
QaS ra'wI' legh vajar. Doqqu' wa' mIn 'ej
Sachpu' Dechbogh DIr. veDDIr tuQtaH. vajar
lopno'Daq 'avwI' lujonta'bogh ghaH. mangghom
ghIrta'. ja'chuq ghaH ya 'ay' Sogh je. QamtaH je
lopno' mebpu', joqwI' qembogh loD je. may'vetlhvaD Qapta' quv.
jatlh qaH'eng «SaghochlI' 'ej meH
boghoSlaw'lI'. bangwI', bIvIHbe'choHlaw'DI' pa'
vIHotlh. pa'vetlhDaq lommey neH lutu'lu'.»
tojbogh to' Del Hota'ro'. Qapta'mo' to' bel
vajar. tojlI' je qaH'eng. qImyal QaS matlh
botmeH lojmItmey ngaQmoHtaH. ghu' yajbe'meH meH,
QumwI' pat muntaH. Hung pat luSorghlaw'ta'mo' je
lotlhwI'pu', Dat leghlaHbe' qaH'eng 'ach
Qaplaw'lI' lotlhwI'pu'. patmey Sorghta' lotlhwI'
neH 'e' Har ngaH. patmeyDaj QIH 'e' ngIlmo' vay'
qejqu' ngaH. Sengmey tI'meH pa' pImDaq vumlI'
ngaH. tI'lI' je qaH'eng 'e' Har ngaH. jatlh
qaH'eng, «Qoreq, vajar lopno' DajaH DaneHDI'
loQ chomer 'ej DaH DatoDta'. qanoHHa'pu', SuvwI'!»
tlho' lajqangbe' Qoreq. jatlh, «DujvaD Qu' vIta'taH.»
jatlh vajar, «qaH'eng, QapmeH QuD, jonwI' choQ wISeHnIS. pIQIH wIneHbe' ...»
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SKI: qaH'eng has also been running deceptions in this game.
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[266] True, disruptor power packs may not
strictly be ammunition, but it's functionally
equivalent, and I don't like saying rIHHa'lu' all the time.
[268] vajar was going to make a joke here, but
as I appreciate the audience participation, I'll
leave it to you to make. Puns aren't really his
thing. I think he'd be more of a Larry, Curly
and Moe fan. He's really taken with that exploding head thing.
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