tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 20 15:19:36 1995
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Re: commas
- From: [email protected] (Anthony Curran)
- Subject: Re: commas
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:20:33 -0500 (CDT)
20 Oct 95, ghItlh charghwI',
>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.
good point.
>
>> qo'ran
>
>charghwI'
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