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Re: Klingon WOTD: nIHwI' (noun)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: nIHwI' (noun)
• Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:00:21 EDT

In a message dated 3/25/2008 14:35:52 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Voragh:
> > >    DanIH
> > >    You steal it. KLS
> 
> lay'tel SIvten:
> >The English translation sounds like an imperative with an emphatic subject.
> 
> We must speak different dialects.  To me it sounds like a perfectly kosher, 
> if somewhat odd, declarative sentence.  "Steal it!" would be the expected 
> (direct?) imperative.  "You'll steal it" might be understood as a sort of 
> "indirect" (?) or suggested imperative:  e.g. "No! *You'll* steal the cash; 
> *I'll* wait outside."
> 


Of course all of that is true.  
I just thought of a situation where "You steal it" makes sense as a 
declarative. 
If someone asks you, "How do I get the Hope Diamond?", you can answer, "You 
steal it."

lay'tel SIvten   </HTML>

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