[Tlhingan-hol] : [imperative] [conjunction] [statement]

[lojmIttI'wI'nuv]

You have done a fine job of explaining how this works in English. Must we presume that’s also how it works in Klingon, especially since we’ve seen canon translations that use {-chugh vaj} instead, and we don’t have canon examples of imperative-conjunction-statement?

You may be perfectly right. I’m not a person who can say either way with any authority. It just seems presumptive to assume that Klingon works like English in this case.

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Mar 3, 2016, at 1:09 AM, Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> [imperative] [conjunction] [statement] is known in English:-
> 
> "Go past that line and you will be shot" = "If you go past that line, you will be shot".
> 
> "Keep out of our shellfish fishing area or one of our boats' underwater ultrasound guns will make sure that your bunch never resurfaces.", he thought when he saw the scuba divers coming.
> 
> In "[question] or [statement]" in English, some may take the "or" to mean "if you do not answer the question,".
> ----Original message----
> From : lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com
> Date : 02/03/2016 - 22:08 (GMTST)
> To : tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> Subject : Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: lach
> 
> I, for one, never said I had a problem with a conjunction between two imperatives. I do have a problem with a conjunction between an imperative and a statement. The former basically means “Do these two things”. The latter? I’m not sure what it means.
> 
> A conjunction between two statements also makes sense. A conjunction between two questions also makes sense to me, but a conjunction between a question and a statement? or a question and an imperative? These don’t work.
> 
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