[88348] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: If I were you...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Thu Nov 18 17:19:08 2010
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:11:20 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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The "I say to you" part seems particularly odd. I don't understand what it adds, besides emotional distance and evasiveness unbecoming of a Klingon.
pItlh.
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
On Nov 18, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Fiat Knox wrote:
> How about simply using a comparative and framing it as a third person comment:-
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> chaq Dochvetlh QaQ law' DochlIj QaQ puS qaja'
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> I say to you, "Perhaps /that/ is better than /your/ thing."
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