tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 08 18:24:35 1995
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Re: Klingon martial arts
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Klingon martial arts
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 21:24:32 -0500
I wrote:
>A verb for "fight like a Klingon" probably would have been translated
>using the word "fight" without a suffix.
jejQIb writes:
>I don't think so. Fighting is not something Klingon-specific.
DaQtIq writes:
>It is perfectly valid for one language to use a single verb stem to express a
>action and another language needing an entire phrase to adequately translate
>the action.
I believe I have been misunderstood. I did not intend to imply that
the translation of the hypothetical verb would be merely "fight", but
that the translation would *include* the word "fight", as opposed to
"fighting".
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