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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/30/2019 1:34 PM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:B68FD33D-B6F1-4A76-BD97-C6BE0EDD5578@mac.com">Note that
it’s not two sentences. It’s four. In English, we translate it as
two, but in Klingon, it is four. One does not usually end a
sentence with a semicolon.</blockquote>
<p>It's four sentences. It's also two sentences. A
sentence-as-object is both one and two sentences. It is what TKD
calls a complex sentence, as opposed to a basic sentence.<br>
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<p><b>jIpuj 'e' vItem.</b> There are two sentences here: <b>jIpuj</b>
and <b>'e' vItem.</b> But a sentence is a structure that stands
alone and contains a complete idea. The first sentence, <b>jIpuj,</b>
is not an idea I'm trying to convey. It's the setup to the real
idea, the context I need to make it work.</p>
<p>This is all exactly the same in English. <i>I deny that I am
weak.</i> It consists of two sentences: <i>I deny that</i> and
<i>I am weak.</i> We recognize that each is a standalone sentence
grammatically, but we also recognize that <i>I deny that I am
weak</i> is also a sentence. Just as in Klingon, we don't bother
to punctuate the two component sentences.</p>
<p>The only difference between the Klingon and the English, besides
the reversed syntax order, is that Klingon grammarians call <b>'e'</b>
a pronoun and English grammarians, describing this particular
function, call <i>that</i> a conjunction.</p>
<p>One does not usually end a sentence with a semicolon, but one
does separate two sentences with a semicolon when one is setting
up a relationship between them. The first "sentence" will "end"
with a semicolon. <i>I ate too much; I can't stand up.</i> Two
related sentences, put together into a single sentence with a
semicolon to form a single idea out of two. The first of the
related sentences ends in a semicolon.<br>
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