tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 05 03:55:42 1994
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Re: Conditionals (fwd)
I got this off of alt.startrek.klingon. I wondered if any of you would
be interested in helping this poor soul.
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In article <[email protected]> ghItlhpu' Dr. Nancy's Sweetie:
: In _The Art of War_, by Sun Tzu, there is a phrase whose literal meaning
: is "No money no move", and which translates to English as "Take no action
: unless there is advantage to it."
: In one sense, this is a conditional: "If there is no advantage, then do not
: take the action". But it's phrased without use of conditional constructs,
: in both languages. Following that pattern, one way to render it in Klingon
: might be this:
: DuDuvbe' Davangbe'
: ("it/you-advance-not you/it-act-not")
: However, this seems to lack verbs, or something. In any case, if it's
: right, it's a lucky guess. Does anybody know a better way to render this
: in Klingon?
: Darren F Provine / [email protected]