On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 1:31 PM Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote: Think of vabDot more than just "even" or "also". A phrase would also
look weird in English if you say "Everyone can learn Klingon, furthermore you." Don't you think so?
PS: use {je}.
I think {vabDot} works fine here. {vabDot} is used to convey that something is unexpected, surprising, or counterintuitive. One might expect that the scope of {Hoch} in the first sentence was just "all people" or perhaps "all people who try out for the officer corps". However, the second sentence adds something unexpected: the intended scope of {Hoch} is not just all *people*, but also all livestock as well. One way to shorten it might be to just replace the verb: {yaS lumojlaH Hoch. vabDot ta'laH DI'raqwIj}. "Everyone can become an officer. Even my sheep can do it."