tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 20 08:33:05 1995

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Re: commas

• From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: commas
• Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:33:01 -0400 (EDT)
• In-Reply-To: <v01530500acac49c9a0fa@[206.66.6.4]> from "Anthony Curran" at Oct 19, 95 04:37:24 pm

According to Anthony Curran:
> 
> In a previous post, charghwI' stated,
> 
> >Note that we now have canon useage of commas, thanks to HolQeD.
> 
> I'm not sure we needed the blessing of canon for our use of commas.  The
> orthography we use when we write tlhingan Hol is not Klingon orthography,
> for which there is no official canon, but a romanized version of what we
> intend to say.  The symbols indicate pronunciation, and a comma is used to
> indicate a pause.

While this is true, we had no canon to indicate that a Klingon
would pause at such a point in a sentence. The canon both
serves to allow us to use commas and shows that a dependent
clause can be spoken with such a pause.

> qo'ran

charghwI'
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