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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/16/2019 10:42 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">SuStel:</div>
<div dir="auto">> and please include an Oxford comma</div>
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<div dir="auto">I didn't know what an oxford comma is, so I
googled it, and found:</div>
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<div dir="auto">"a comma used after the penultimate item in a list
of three or more items, before ‘and’ or ‘or’ (e.g. an Italian
painter, sculptor, and architect)"</div>
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<div dir="auto">However I'm confused, because of the fact that in
klingon the "and/or" is always last and doesn't appear before
the final noun.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The way I understand using the oxford comma in
klingon, would be:</div>
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<div dir="auto">vIghro', gha'cher, bo'Degh, je vIlegh </div>
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<div dir="auto">Is this what you meant, by saying "include an
oxford comma" ?</div>
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<p>I really meant just for verb/sentence conjunctions.</p>
<p><b>vIghro', gha'cher, bo'Degh je vIlegh<br>
</b><i>I see the cat, the goat, and the bird</i><br>
(Oxford comma in English but not Klingon)<br>
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<p>but</p>
<p><b>vIghro' vIlegh, gha'cher vIje', 'ej bo'Degh vIQoy<br>
</b><i>I see the cat, I feed the goat, and I hear the bird<br>
</i>(Oxford comma in both English and Klingon)</p>
<p><b>lalDan noHmeH taghmoHpu' <i>Oxford comma. </i>yIyep'eghmoH.</b><br>
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