tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 13 12:00:42 1998
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MO's punctuation
charghwI' wrote:
: [Voragh] wrote:
: > lutlhob: naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a'?
: > They ask him, "Can we get to the Great Hall from here?" PK
:
: Obviously, this is a direct quote and the colon is your
: punctuation, not Okrand's.
Obviously. We don't know the punctuation (if any) Okrand used on the
audiotape
scripts unless he quoted the line later in one of his books or on the
startrek.klingon newsgroup. Any punctuation you may see is merely my attempt
at reproducing his pauses, phrasing and intonation. I could have easily
written:
lutlhob, <<naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a'?>>
BTW, has anyone ever asked Okrand nicely for a look at his working copies of
the scripts so we -- or the KLI -- can verify our transcripts, particularly of
the punctuation? Or are they property of Paramount and Simon & Schuster and
cannot be shared or even shown to anyone?
: As a side note, it really helps to get page numbers so we can
: check out the larger context of these references.
Surely you've made your own index by now, qar'a'?
: > juDev 'ej Dujvam ra'wI' DagheS 'e' vItlhob
: > I ask you to lead us as commander of this ship
: > ("I request that you lead us and that you assume the duties of
: > commander of this ship.") KGT
KGT p. 183f.
: > qab legh 'e' poQ
: > He/she demands to see a face. [challenge to a duel] KGT
KGT p. 68.
Actually, I don't have the page references in my AKD (which is the file I
normally keep open whilst reading this list), but I do keep a searchable list
so lablelled of all of Okrand's examples in a separate file at home to consult
at times like these.
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Voragh "Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)