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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuqDaq ghaH 'arHa'e'?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Appleyard)
Tue Nov 17 07:44:55 2015
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:44:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard@btinternet.com>
To: de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com, tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
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From : de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com
Date : 17/11/2015 - 11:55 (GMTST)
To : tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
Cc : a.appleyard@btinternet.com
Subject : Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuqDaq ghaH 'arHa'e'?
De'vID:
> taghwI'pu' tIQorgh. yIbIv, 'ej bIbIvtaHvIS qa'meH vIttlheghvam yIqaw:
> Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.
(I know what "infringe" means.) That text seems to say "Take care of beginners. Infringe (imperative), and while you are infringing, as a replacement, remember (imperative) this proverb: "while the warrior is dying, only the fool laughs.".".
This looks to me like an example of an imperative being used as a conditional, a construction used in English sometimes. e.g.: "Scuba dive (imperative) there, and the navy base's underwater defences will make a quick end of you", used to mean "If you scuba dive there, the navy base's underwater defences will make a quick end of you". But, is imperative-as-conditional allowed in Klingon?
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