[2560] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: naDev jIchu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 17:50:30 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: Fri, 14 Jan 94 17:43:55 EST
On Jan 14, 1:00am, DSTRADER@delphi.com wrote:
...
> 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...
...
Just to add another stylistic option, I do the same, except that I
center lines. That is in response to Okuda's habit of greeking from the
middle outward the written Klingon on all the sets requiring Klingon writing.
He stubbornly refuses to "allow" his characters to be assigned to useful
character roles (though Dr. Schoen did it anyway). Still, all written Klingon
(while intentionally gibberish) is centered. When a sentence is longer than a
line, I left justify the remainder, since Klingon doesn't have a hyphen
(though I sometimes use one anyway).
Most sentences are quite short. If we started breaking
Sentence-As-Object (SAO) constructions into separate lines, they would be
even shorter, since most long sentences involve SAO. Guido #1 brings up good
points against this practice, given that with {neH} and verbs of speaking, we
don't use {'e'} and it would be quite awkward to leave those verbs on a line
of their own. Okrand is vague on this one. (So what's new?)
When I am responding to someone who writes with different conventions, I
usually follow their convention. The goal is to be understood, right?
The only bad thing about centering everything is that people tend to
assume you are writing poetry. {wejpuH}
-- charghwI'
