tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 08 16:38:20 1996
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Re: KLBC> Can you help me?
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC> Can you help me?
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:35:06 -0500
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."
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