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Re: KLBC> Can you help me?



Chris Lipscombe writes:
>If I want to make sentence of the type
>                      <Do something __by__  doing something else>
>how do I do it.

English has a plethora of methods to express an idea; some of them don't
translate well into Klingon, but others are easy.  Many phrases which
initially seem difficult to translate yield to a simple technique:  turn
them around the other way.

>For example if I wanted to translate
>                <Play football by kicking the ball>
>what would it come out as.

"Kick the ball in order to play football."

mu'tlheghvam Damugh 'e' vIchaw'.

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj




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