tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 14 21:53:47 1997
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Re: KLBC simple phrases from Klingon 2
Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]> writes:
>The prefixes I provided didn't include imperative (so "give me chocolate
>or I fight you" was a statement, not a command)...
"Give me chocolate" *is* a command. As I said before, if you don't
provide the tools to express imperative ideas, you shouldn't ask the
student to translate one.
And you've not taken into account the usual Klingon phrasing for the
kind of "Do this or else that happens" idea your sentence has. The
examples we have make it "If you do not do this, then that happens."
{bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh} "Surrender or die!"
-- ghunchu'wI'