On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:35 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 4, 2016 06:47, "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Some language textbooks call this sort of sentence an "unreal condition". We need Okrand/Maltz to reveal a one-syllable or two-syllable particle which means "this is not true, but assume for the moment that it is true" or similar, that could be put in if-clauses and when-ckauses and suchlike, and/or into a clause that governs such a clause.

{net jalchugh} Dapar'a'?

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De'vID

vIparHa'qu', De'vID. lI'. chaq mu'meyvam lo' tlhIngan, tuch qeltaHvIS. 'a pa'logh qeltaHvIS, qaSbe'bogh wanI' qelbe'. qellaHbe'law'. ('a ta' Dun lachlaHbej.)

This opening scene from DS9 "Soldiers of the Empire" demonstrates how Klingons differ from humans with regard to imagining how things could have happened differently.

[Infirmary] (Martok has a shoulder wound.)
BASHIR: Another three centimetres to the right and you would've severed the brachial artery. Autosuture, please. And if that had happened, you would have bled to death right there in the holosuite.
MARTOK: The human fascination with what might have been is tiresome, doctor. The artery was not severed and I am not dead.

~mIp'av