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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2021 6:54 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">De'vID:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Maybe it should be {pu' DIlo'chugh, maQap; yan DIlo' 'e' qa'}.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I'm afraid I can't understand this. The way I read it is "If we use
phasers we'll win, instead of using swords". Shouldn't there be a
{-chugh} on the {yan DIlo'} too?</pre>
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<p>You're right: saying it De'vID's way seems to say we use phasers,
and we'll win instead of using swords. I don't think either
version works.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Maybe this can be simplified using the common shortcuts like so:
pu' DIlo'chugh, maQap; yan qa'.
If we use phasers, we will succeed. It replaces swords.
I don't know whether this works in the more formal style, however.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I can't understand this either. Could you please explain the reasons
which make you have doubts as to whether this could work in the formal
style?</pre>
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<p>I misspoke a bit. The <b>yan qa'</b> version isn't the informal
style; it's just the version <i>instead</i>-ing a noun instead of
a sentence.</p>
<p>But now I don't think this quite works either, for a reason
similar to De'vID's. It seems to say <i>We win instead of swords,
</i>whatever that means.</p>
<p>I just don't see a good way of making an instead-construction
conditional. We either need to break it into multiple sentences or
get word from on high about how to do it.<br>
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