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RE: [Klingon_Language] (unknown)

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: [Klingon_Language] (unknown)
• Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:10:45 -0600
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> So with those examples in mind, how would you render the 
> difference between:
> 
>    "Kruge killed the traitor with his (i.e. Kruge's) knife."
>    "Kruge killed the traitor with his own (i.e. the traitor's) knife."
> 
> {tajDaj} "his knife" alone is ambiguous.  One could always repeat the noun

> - {Qugh taj} "Kruge's knife" vs. {maghwI' taj} "the traitor's knife" - but

> I don't think this captures the irony (or justice?) of the second.
Perhaps 
> this is less clumsy in Klingon than in English.

Without the (), the english is just as ambiguous.
If you reword the english to be unambiguous, the klingon could be reworded
in much the same way.


DloraH

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