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Re: KLBC simple phrases from Klingon 2



>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 22:13:39 -0800 (PST)
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>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.

Well said.  How can "give me chocolate or I fight you" be a statement and
not a command?  The English parses only as a command.  Do you mean the
reading "if you do not give me..."?

~mark


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