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.

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




On Jan 24, 2022, at 8:39 AM, Iikka Hauhio <fergusq@protonmail.com> wrote:

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".

Also, as the TKW sentence "nuHlIj DawIvpu', vaj yISuv." shows, Okrand has used a comma before vaj.

Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio

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On Monday, January 24th, 2022 at 15.36, Will Martin <willmartin2@mac.com> wrote:
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. 

On Jan 24, 2022, at 8:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:


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.

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