[Tlhingan-hol] Beginner Story excerpt

[Robyn Stewart]

Ordinary quotation marks are not compatible with the Klingon language because words begin and end with the letter qaghwI’, creating an unreadable mess. 

Daqna’DajDaq lut cherlu’DI’ Sengveth jun HTML’e’ ‘ach wej mIw vIwuq. DaHjaj mIw ru’ vIlo’ ‘ej lut’e’ laD luneHchugh vay’, laDlaH. 

loDnalwI’vaD jIjatlh, DuyonmoH’a’ bertlham? 
(ghaHvaD vImughta’).

jatlh ghaH, HISlaH, ‘ej lut cha’DIch chaw’ je.

 

- Qov

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robyn at flyingstart.ca wrote:-

> I am almost finished the first draft of the online Klingon course....
> the angle brackets are just a quick add in to make it readable now.

To show quotation, why not use ordinary quotes "  " ? Some HTML-based email readers sometimes act odd with the less-than and greater-than symbols used as brackets.

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