[1785] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Punctuation revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 20 09:51:04 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 09:47:29 EDT
On Oct 20, 1:14am, Jacques Guy wrote:
> Subject: Punctuation revisited
>
>
> ... or lack thereof, I know, I know. Which leads me to
> ask: what about spaces? Spaces between words is a highly
> idiosyncratic Terran convention, highly regional too.
> Only some weirdo users of some weirdo languages (English, French,
> German, Italian, Russian... you know) do it. The Thai don't
> do it, the Burmese don't do it, the pundits seeped in Sanskrit
> don't do it, once upon a time the ancestors of said weirdoes
> didn't do it.... so, do the Klingons do it???
>
> Frogguy.
Simple. TKD is full of the use of spaces between words. It has no
examples of punctuation in Klingon.
-- chargwI'
