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RE: KLBC qun

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC qun
• Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:37:48 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <000101c1577f$ff34d480$7e51e8cd@dlorah>
• References: <[email protected]>

Qor'etlh ghoj'wI':
> How would I best say:
>   "Warriors live in the present, civilization (Empire, or
>    Citizens(?)) goes on into the future."
 
DloraH:
:   yInlI' SuvwI'pu', taHtaH tayqeq.
: 
: Or to make a better connection in the comparison, use the same root verb.
: 
:   taHlI' SuvwI'pu', taHtaH tayqeq.

Alternatively, use contrasting adverbials:

  DaH yInlI' SuvwI'pu', reH taHtaH tayqeq.

As Klingon verbs have no grammatical tense, using adverbs of time can help.  A
possible caveat: Since Klingon time words are more specific than their English
equivalents - e.g. {wa'Hu'} "tomorrow" (lit. "one day from now") - Klingons may
not use them metaphorically: e.g. the car of tomorrow, yesterday's child.  We
need to ask Maltz.



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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