[tlhIngan Hol] "Seasons of Love" in Klingon / And two grammatical questions

[luis.chaparro at web.de]

Thank you again for your replies!

charghwI':

>> I understand your point, but (as a beginner) I was actually thinking on a different possibility:
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>> *be' Huch paq je* - the woman's money and book

> While there’s a logic behind this, you are implying that no comma means two different things here. No comma between two nouns in a noun-noun construction, and no comma between two nouns that would normally have a comma between them in a noun-noun-conjunction construction, if such a convention exists (and it doesn’t). So the lack of commas between {be’} and {Huch} means something different than the lack of commas between {Huch} and {paq}. Really? And you expect us to figure that out on the fly?

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> I like this stylistic use of comma, though I do not believe it is a convention that has as yet been adopted. Perhaps we should adopt it.

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> I’m less sure that in most cases context WILL clarify than it is that we SAY that context clarifies because it COULD clarify and we are lazy and would prefer that it clarifies than have to go to the effort of explicitly saying something to clarify what we mean.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to suggest it was the best way to write noun-noun constructions, I just was explaining how I (from my beginner's point of view) have understood it. I just wanted to know if there is a general consensus in order to use it when I write Klingon. But now I know there is no such convention, so I will use other methods to avoid misunderstandings :-)