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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/29/2020 8:59 AM, David Holt wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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<p>I tend to agree with this, however the ones that use the
triangles end with a triangle, so the punctuation marks are
clearly terminators, not separators. The cards are inconsistent as
to which triangle ends sentences, and of course none of the cards
have Klingon writing that is actually readable (at least, not that
matches the Klingon text). It astounds me that this somehow became
"real" Klingon punctuation in people's minds.</p>
<p>If I were given the task of inventing meanings for the two types
of triangles as punctuation, I would probably do this: the
up-turned triangle is an IDEA SEPARATOR. Sometimes Klingon is
happy to smush two sentences together to form a single idea, as in
<b>'uSDaj chop; chev</b><i> Bite his leg off!</i>, and these would
not be separated. Conjunctions would not have their components
separated. The down-turned triangle would separate dependent
clauses from other clauses in an idea wherever they appeared.</p>
<p>For example (I hope the triangles survive the sending of this
message):</p>
<p><b>juHwIj 'el HejwI' ▲ vIleghDI' ▼ qovIjwIjvaD jIjatlh 'uSDaj
chop chev </b><b>▲ Haw'meH HejwI' </b><b>▼ pay' Qorwagh vegh </b><b>▲
ghaH vIHIv jIH'e' </b><b>▼ vIleghqa'chugh<br>
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<p>But this is just my aesthetic preference, supposing I had to use
triangles at all (they don't suit the usual typeface). It doesn't
match what anyone else has been doing with them. (For instance, in
my mind, triangles resting on their sides are stable and are more
suitable for ending thoughts, where you can gather yourself for
the next idea, while triangles standing on their points are
unstable, meaning you have to move on to the next thing quickly.)<br>
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