[2524] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: naDev jIchu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 12 13:05:56 1994
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, 12 Jan 94 13:01:54 EST
On Jan 12, 12:21pm, Mark Reed wrote:
...
> \ {'e'} is MEANT to be used in the middle of ONE sentence to connect two
> \verbs such that that which could stand as a complete sentence revolving
> \around the first verb becomes the object of the second verb.
> Not true. We punctuate it that way, we think of it that way, but
> such constructions with 'e' are really two sentences, according to
> that section of TKD...
> -marqoS
VERY interesting point. This brings us back to the use of punctuation.
Of course, it doesn't exist in TKD, but suggestions that we shouldn't use it
here are met with strong objections, despite the conservative bent of every
OTHER aspect of grammar relating to TKD.
So if we ARE going to use it here, do we punctuate sentences linked by
{'e'} along the boundaries of the KLINGON sentences, or the ENGLISH sentences
we translate them into? Since this is the ONLY place where punctuation is
used when writing Klingon, we are of course free to do it however we choose,
but we should at least come up with our own conventions in its use. I
personally will probably renew my attention toward avoiding the use of
punctuation, although even then I have to rethink what I place on a line.
The potential exists that Klingons do not delimit sentences at all, the
way the Greeks did not use word-wrap on their stone tablets. vIparqu'. THIS
POINTS TO ANOTHER THING TO TALK TO OKRAND ABOUT. HOW DO THEY DELIMIT
SENTENCES IN THEIR WRITING?
-- Will
