tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 25 11:29:13 2002
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Re: Ten Commandments
Stephan Schneider wrote:
> >> ghob tIvnISbe'lu'
> >> One need not enjoy virtue. TKW
> >
> > but wouldn't that mean "one doesn't have to enjoy virtue?"
> > "One need not enjoy virtue" would be "ghob tIvbe'nISlu'".
DloraH, BG:
>The problem here is the english. The klingon is correct.
Cf. Okrand's commentary on this proverb {vIttlhegh} in "The Klingon Way"
(p.48):
The Klingon construction {tIvnISbe'} means "does not need to enjoy";
{tIvbe'nIS} would mean {needs to not enjoy}, an utterly different
concept.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons