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Re: KLBC Prefix trick

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC Prefix trick
• Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:10:33 -0500
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From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>

> Your sentence would need to be recast into two:
> {qagh Sop. vISopmoH.} "He eats {qagh}. I cause him to eat."

Another common way to render this sort of thing:

qagh Sop 'e' vIqaSmoH.
I cause it to happen that he eats gagh (this works much better in Klingon
than the English sounds).
Literally: "He eats gagh; I cause that to happen."

As always, translate the concept originally; don't just follow a formula.

SuStel
Stardate 4204.5

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