[Tlhingan-hol] Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country Klingon Dialogue

[qunnoQ HoD]

> Since we know nothing about klingon writing, we also do not know about
commas
> What we write is not the Klingon writing system. What we write is a
phonetic representation, using human characters.

has Okrand ever been asked,on the subject of commas/question marks etc ?
(their existence,uses etc..)

qunnoQ

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:00 PM, DloraH <seruq at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > > if there are commas in Klingon (are there ?)
> >
> > since we know nothing about klingon writing, we also do not
> > know about
> > commas. But most klingonists have agreed that using commas is a very
> > useful thing to make phrases clear, also when adding things:
>
> What we write is not the Klingon writing system.
> What we write is a phonetic representation, using human characters.
> Likewise, the grammar we use is a part of that phonetic representation.
> A comma is a pause, A period is a full stop, etc.
> In this human writing system we use to represent the spoken Klingon
> sounds, we can use whatever we
> feel nessessary to accomplish that representation more accurately, just
> like how Okrand chose upper
> case / lower case, and letter groups to more accrurately represent certain
> sounds.
> When you write with this system that we use, by all means, use commas,
> etc.  When you speak, put in
> the appropriate pauses.
>
>
> -- DloraH
>
>
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