[tlhIngan Hol] If pIqaD became Ca'Non..

[Will Martin]

Aside from the arguments about which, if any, English punctuation that Klingon ought to have, nobody has brought up the excellent likelihood that if Klingon HAD punctuation, it just might be for things radically different from English.

Consider the reverse colon for SAO...

charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan

rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 7:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David Holt:
>> Even if we are never shown any other punctuation on screen, I think the wording of your statement is misleading.
>> The marks are not actually a comma and a period. I would say that pIqaD has two punctuation marks: One for separating
>> sentences and one for separating ideas within a sentence. English punctuation marks can be divided into these two groups,
>> but we have multiple choices in the sentence separating group.
> 
> On the other hand I believe, that whoever created the pIqaD, simply
> didn't care to create additional symbols for colons, semicolons, etc.
> And we're just trying - once again - to find excuses for everything.
> 
> I can't believe that someone sat down, consciously classified english
> punctuation in just two groups, and then said "ok, because klingon is
> alien and all that crap, it stands to reason that there's no need for
> anything else." There *is* need for *everything* else (colons,
> semicolons, etc..) I don't think that all natural languages are
> written with the punctuation we know, just because someone centuries
> ago woke up in the morning, and got sexually aroused by the idea of
> creating the punctuation we know today.
> 
> I can understand in-game thinking for the people who like to think of
> klingon as an alien language, but at the end of the day, in-game
> thinking is just that. In-game thinking and nothing more.
> 
> Klingon isn't alien. It's a human constructed language, created by a
> human, used by humans. If there were aliens, I doubt we could begin to
> understand their means of communication.
> 
> ~ mayqel qunen'oS
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