[1663] in tlhIngan-Hol
Punctuation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 13 13:39:10 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: (Mark E. Shoulson) shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 09:18:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: cleggp@rpi.edu's message of Tue, 12 Oct 93 22:57:15 EDT <931013025
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>From: cleggp@rpi.edu
>Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 22:57:15 EDT
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>I just read the FAQ for here, and came up with a question that might apply...
>How do you delimit the end of a sentence? Is it always a period? Or is
>it acceptable to use English punctuations (like exclamation marks, question
>marks, etc.) in ADDITION to the proper Klingon sentence constructions?
Someone recently pointed out that on this list we *do* use English
punctuation marks (though Okrand doesn't in his material). I think it's a
helpful convention, so long as we realize that it's just a convention, a
way of making things easier for us to parse, not a redefining of where
sentences start or stop or whatever.
>...Paul
~mark
