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Re: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?

Lieven Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?
• Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:45:47 +0200 (MEST)
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If I remember correctly, it is even written somewhere by Marc Okrnd himself
that this {vaj} after {-chugh} is redundant. But I don't know where I get
that from. [do u?]

> languages do lots of things that seem odd to outsiders, and letting
> Klingon have those
> kind of usages just increases its appeal for me.

In english it's similar somtimes, many words can be omitted without changing
the statement:

  "If you don't buy, you die."
  "If you don't buy, then you die."

(only regarding the use of {vaj} here.)

Quvar.

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