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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/21/2020 8:48 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">"I want you to feed the owl", jIjatlh vIneH, vaj mu'tlhegh veb vIqon:
{lIr yIje' vIneH}
lugh'a' ?</pre>
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<p>No. The correct sentence would be <b>lIr Daje' vIneH.</b>
Imperatives do not work as the first sentence of a
sentence-as-object construction.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">sao mojtaHvIS ra'meH mu'tlhegh, taQchoHlaw' vay', 'a vay'vam
vIngu'laHbe'.</pre>
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<p>You're thinking of it as a command, but it's not a command. It's
a statement of fact about what you want. As we learn in <i>Klingon
for the Galactic Traveler,</i> a Klingon will "never [use] an
indirect expression when a blunt one will do." If your purpose is
to get me to feed the bird, use an imperative. What you <i>want</i>
is irrelevant.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">DaH, jISov.. chaq jatlhqang vay': qatlh {lIr yIje'} neH Daqonbe''a' ?
'a latlh mu'tlheghmey vIqonlaHbogh 'oHbe' QIn tlheghvam meq'e'. sao
ra'meH mu'tlheghmey je 'oH QIn tlheghvam meq'e'.</pre>
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<p>That's unfortunate, because the correct answer is, in fact, to
say <b>lIr yIje'.</b></p>
<p>But the answer to your larger question is that you can't use
imperatives as the first sentence of a sentence-as-object
construction.<br>
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