<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Recently, I decided to start learning Klingon. As a practice, I started to translate the first few sentences of Sun Tzu’s the art of war. Although it looks right to me, I realize that, if I am in some way horribly mistaken as to how this language works, I would have no way of realizing this on my own. So, I am sending this to the mailing list, in the hopes that some good Samaritan could give me a pointer or two in my path to learning this fascinating language. English in quotes.<div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Baskerville; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">“Laying Plans”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Baskerville; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">“2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Baskerville; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">cha’. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">yIn Hegh je Soj ‘oH ‘ej QaDqu’ghach lujqu’ghach ghap Dev ‘oH. QeD DabuSHa’be’qu’.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Baskerville; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">“3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field.”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Baskerville; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">wej. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">veSQeD qum vagh qechmey, bIH Daqel ‘ej yotlhDaq Datu’DI’.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div><div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div></div></div></div></body></html>