On 1/10/2022 10:41 AM, Will Martin wrote:
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.

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.

No one is talking about that. Luis is asking how he should write things to us, the Klingon-speaking people of the real world.

We have no canonical information on punctuation in pIqaD, or really anything else about it. Worf saying teehongee jee! is more informative to us than any Klingon writing we've seen prior to Star Trek: Discovery.



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.

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.


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