<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When I wrote “The Guitar Owner’s Manual — How to Buy, Maintain, and Repair an Acoustic Guitar” (available in iBooks), I was very much in the habit of writing run-on sentences, rife with parenthetical comments, as was my habit in speech as well as writing, with total disregard to the advice in Strunk and White, recommending concise and focused speech, using shorter, simpler sentences to express ideas rather than burdening each sentence with too much content for readers to maintain sufficient patience to slog their way through it all. But my editor just put periods between clauses, even if some of them were dependent.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">mu'tlhegh ngaD maS tlhInganpu’. qech Qatlh chIwlu'meH mu’tlheghmey law’ poQlu’chugh, qay’be’. Dayajlu’ghach potlh law’ Qatlh pab Dalo’laHghach potlh puS.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 27, 2021, at 9:41 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">charghwI':</div><div dir="auto" class="">> First, I’d recommend {vIHbe’meH qa’vIn}</div><div dir="auto" class="">> over {qa’vIn vIHMoHbe’lu’meH}</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Yes, this is a good suggestion too. I didn't give much thought to whether I should use {vIHbe'meH} or {vIHmoHbe'lu'meH}. I just wrote the first thing which came to mind.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div>SuStel:<div dir="auto" class="">> I think this comes from your liberal</div><div dir="auto" class="">> splicing of parenthetical phrases in the</div><div dir="auto" class="">> middle of sentences</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Indeed! In fact, what I was actually intending to write was:</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">{HIvje' vIHmoHbe'lu'meH -vaj qa'vIn Qoy'moHbe'lu'meH- ngaDmoHwI' le' lo'lu'}<br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">But I must have gotten distracted by something and forgot the dashes..</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Yes, I admit it.. Parenthetical phrases are to me the same thing, as a fish is to a cat. I just can't resist them.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">On a totally unrelated subject, do you get delivery reports for the messages you send to the list? I'm missing the delivery reports from yesterday, and today.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">--<br class="">Dana'an <br class=""><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br class="">Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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