sentence_pair: ᎨᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏲᏍᎩ ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ ᎤᏙᎴᏋ ᏱᎨᏎ ᏍᎩᎾᎾ ᎢᏳᏪᏍᏗ, ᎤᏩᏌ ᎤᏓᏅᏖᎸ ᏂᎦᏪᏍᎨ ᏱᏚᏁᏤᎸ, ᎣᎯᏍᏙᏓ ᏱᎬᎩᏰᎸᎾ ᎠᏂᏧᏣ ᎡᎵᏍᎨ, ᎤᏅᏌ ᎤᎾᏓᏅᏖᎸ ᎢᏳᎾᏛᏁᏗ ᎨᏥᏁᏤᎲ.
sentence_pair: It was an affectation he had not picked up at the Military Academy but had acquired all on his own, either in an attempt to be elegant or else to blunt the edge of command and make himself more likable to the boys under him by suggesting that the action he was requesting might be entirely optional.