[2650] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: naDev jIchu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 16:20:16 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: Al Goodnis <al@concord.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 16:08:34 EST
> From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
> Subject: Re: naDev jIchu'
> People know when one sentence starts and another ends. Some languages have
> no punctuation; they run all their words together. I wish luck to the
> Klingonist who would fail to delimit his sentences thus. Given that we
> need to punctuate, one scheme is as good as the next, I feel.
In tlhIngan Hol, how would you tell one sentences subject from the next
sentences object? Perhaps my chu' does not help, but I think that having
long tlhIngan sentences without punctuation would be hard to read - VERY
hard.
Is this something I have to overcome as a novice?
-qor
