In English (and Greek if anyne wonders..) when we write a word and there's no more space in the page, we interrupt the word with a dash. For example: flabber- gasted Can we do the same in klingon ? ~ m. qunen'oS dogs are four-legged trash
Well, since the Latin alphabet is simply a transliteration/phonetic transcription of the language, I suppose there is no reason to forbid it. On the other hand, the average Klingon word is shorter than the average English word, so there is not as much need to do so. Luciano On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 12:21 PM mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
In English (and Greek if anyne wonders..) when we write a word and there's no more space in the page, we interrupt the word with a dash.
For example:
flabber- gasted
Can we do the same in klingon ?
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Am 08.05.2019 um 14:21 schrieb mayqel qunen'oS:
In English (and Greek if anyne wonders..) when we write a word and there's no more space in the page, we interrupt the word with a dash. Can we do the same in klingon ?
Sure, why not? You only need to pay attention to the syllables and not let autocorrect work for you. DaHjaj tlhIngan- pu' vIleghtaH- mo' jIQuchqu'. This is also attested in canon, eg. KGT p. 69 qab-Daj, p. 148: jI-Quch, p. 149 Degh-wI', but it's not clear if that was a suggestion made by Okrand, as it also has mistakes: p. 107: jaghpu-'Daj I doubt that Okrand had been involved in the formatting of the book, and he has not written anything officially about cutting words - but after all: why not? -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/KlingonForTheGalacticTraveler
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