<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=""><div class="">I concede your point, though I still think it’s poor form, given that Okrand gave us a category of words as conjunctions and he gave us a category of words as adverbials and never suggested that any word could be both. He apparently considers {vaj} to be both, simultaneously, and he is humanity’s primary Klingon grammarian.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2022, at 8:39 AM, Iikka Hauhio <<a href="mailto:fergusq@protonmail.com" class="">fergusq@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">The punctuation rules of Klingon are not important as there is no consistent canon, so there is no reason to say that "the comma should have been a period".<br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Also, as the TKW sentence <b class="">"</b><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">nuHlIj DawIvpu', vaj yISuv." </b>shows, Okrand has used a comma before <b class="">vaj</b>.<br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio</div></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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On Monday, January 24th, 2022 at 15.36, Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com" class="">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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My answer was intended to defend SuStel’s correct analysis of the problem with this canon example of the use of {vaj}. I want to be clear about that. Either there’s an omitted conjunction, or the comma should have been a period. <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 24, 2022, at 8:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Indeed fergusq, reading the Ca'Non examples that you mentioned, I too can't understand why {vaj} wouldn't be one of the best choices for the Duolingo sentence. I'm just wondering reading SuStel's reply, in case there's something I'm missing.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="">--<br class="">Dana'an <br class=""><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" 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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