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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/10/2022 10:41 AM, Will Martin
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I think we disagree less than you think. Yes, punctuate liberally
in order to make yourself as clear as possible TO YOUR AUDIENCE.
In this case, the audience is a group of humans who are learning
Klingon as a non-primary language. Those humans may better
understand what you write because of your use of punctuation that
fits the conventions of the not-Klingon language common to members
of your audience.
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<div class="">What I object to is the suggestion that we have the
slightest clue how punctuation is used by Klingons when they
write using their native language.</div>
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<p>No one is talking about that. Luis is asking how <i>he</i>
should write things to <i>us,</i> the Klingon-speaking people of
the real world.</p>
<p>We have no canonical information on punctuation in <b>pIqaD,</b>
or really anything else about it. Worf saying <i>teehongee jee!</i>
is more informative to us than any Klingon writing we've seen
prior to <i>Star Trek: Discovery.</i><br>
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<div class="">This message's thread was driven by a person who
seemed to be seeking the authoritative, generalizable rules for
using punctuation in a specific instance as a kind of formula
for using punctuation properly. I think that person needs to
realize that there are no known rules for the use of punctuation
in Klingon. I really think he intended to take what advice we
give as an anchor point for future use of “correct” punctuation,
and as a student, he needs to know that there is no “correct”
use of punctuation in Klingon.</div>
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<p>No, I don't think that's what Luis has been asking. He's
concerned with groupings of noun phrases and what ways they can be
interpreted. Punctuation was offered as a tool for disambiguating
and clarifying, but it doesn't reach the core of what Luis has
been asking.<br>
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