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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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