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Re: Ten Commandments

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Ten Commandments
• Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:11:25 -0500
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>13. yIHoHQo'.

This is a definite (and unfortunately very common) KJV-ism.  The correct
English translation is "You will not murder."  My grasp of the grammatical
implications of Biblical Hebrew isn't strong enough to be able to state
that the lack of imperative in the original deserves to be mirrored in a
Klingon translation, but the word {HoH} is definitely wrong.  The prefix is
wrong as well, as these are all addressed to the assembled multitude.

  pechotQo' (or, just maybe, Suchotbe')

>14. tlhogh yIbIvQo'.

Ooh, that's a *fantastic* way to finesse the translation of "adultery"!
Perhaps {tlhogh chut} would be more explicit.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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