tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 07 12:29:17 1997
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RE: Two imperatives in a row?
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Two imperatives in a row?
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 97 20:26:02 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Steven Boozer wrote:
> When using two simple imperatives, it does seem to be a matter of style. To
> me at least, Qov's preference sounds more direct, more forceful, more...
> Klingon. Here are more examples of more than one imperative in one utterance
> (not necessarily one sentence), again not including the new material from
> KGT.
Okrand also avoids conjunctions between imperatives in one further set of
phrases: the ones like
bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh
Surrender or die.
This is a single sentence with a subordinate clause, an adverbial, and a main
verb. In English it's two imperative sentences with a conjunction between
them. Klingon seems to avoid saying "<Do this> or <do that>"
SuStel
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