<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This is not a great translation, no matter how you look at it, though I suspect that the exchange is not:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Why should we care about humans fighting each other?”</div><div class="">“I obviously remember it because honor is important."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s closer to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“So, humans fight each other. Why do we care?”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Because honor is important. I obviously remember that." </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s ugly, either way, but the {-mo’} part makes more sense as an answer to the previous question, instead of as a dependent clause for the main clause that follows it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, I concede the point. Canon proves me wrong again.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:49 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/2020 1:43 PM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:acb0bec6-76ab-e337-f996-df7f7a759809@gmx.de" class="">Am
17.11.2020 um 19:09 schrieb Will Martin:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;" class="">While I understand
that it’s common in English and perhaps other human
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languages to answer a “Why?” question with a dependent clause
starting
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with “Because”, I’m curious as to whether or not we can assume
the same
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is true in Klingon.
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We have a clear canon example for this in Star Trek Into Darkness:
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Klingon:
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{toH, Hey Humanpu'. qatlh DISaH?}
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"Why should I care about a human killing humans?"
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Uhura:
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{potlhmo' batlh, vIqawba'.}
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"Because you care about honor." <br class="">
</blockquote><p class="">I don't get what the <b class="">vIqawba'</b> is doing here. If it means
what it looks like it means, <i class="">I obviously remember it,</i> then
this is not a subordinate clause lacking a main clause.<br class="">
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