[2536] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: naDev jIchu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 01:03:00 1994
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From: DSTRADER@delphi.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:57:48 -0400 (EDT)
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ghItlhpu' "qor":
> perhaps its time to figure out how we can tell one sentence from another
> without the punctuation, and then once that is in place, teach us small
> timers.
Well, I wouldn't want to force my idea onto anyone, but my own personal
convention is to write only one sentence per line. If one sentence requires
more than one line, I indent all lines after the first line.
'u' QIjlI' tej'a'pu'ma'
'otlh mach law' Doch latlh |
DISovbogh mach puS DaH |
QeDmo' 'e' wISov
reH De' chu' wIghojlI'
That second sentence of course didn't really need the indentation, but I'm
only using that as an example. The | indicates the supposed end of the page.
On a grammatical issue on which charghwI' wrote something recently, I would
consider a double-verb sentence using {'e'} as one sentence. Look at my
second example sentence:
{'otlh mach law' Doch latlh DISovbogh mach puS DaH QeDmo' 'e' wISov}
Indeed, {DaH QeDmo' 'e' wISov} has the legitimacy of a sentence in its own rig
and CAN stand alone. But, this looks to me like a compressed construction
that over time decidedly and in all practicality, a single sentence. In fact,
one verb, {neH}, was used so frequently in this construction that {'e'} was
dropped and the sentence compressed into one. {jImej vIneH}. Not {jImej.
'e' vIneH.} For all practical purposes, the entire SAO construction is imesho
worth one sentence.
I write a lot in the KLIpIqaD font which has nothing equivalent to punctuation
so I've adopted this indentational convention. I also believe that commas,
etc., should NEVER be required. Klingon grammar seems to work around that.
We have verbal syntactic markers rather than subordinate clauses, and so forth.
Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos
