[tlhIngan Hol] Saruman and Lurtz

[mayqel qunenoS]

maj SuStel !

wa'leS, mu'meylIj vIpoj ! DaH, whisky vItlhutlhta'mo' 'ej jIDoy'mo',
jIQongnIS ! murIt QongDaqwIj..

jIQongtaHvIS, nIyma'pu' vIleghbe'. 'e' vItul !

qunnoq
ghogh HablI'vo aah who cares..

On 23 Aug 2016 8:35 p.m., "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 8/23/2016 11:56 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>
> SuStel:
>
> That's your error. During the "once," they were still
> elves. When it was "once," being elves wasn't completed.
>
> hmm.. Perhaps I'm beginning to understand. So you're saying that the
> event, which is described by the aspect suffix {-pu'} must :
>
> 1. be completed
> 2. have stopped being in effect
>
> right ?
>
>
> No, it needs to be completed by the action to which the verb the suffix is
> attached to refers. If that very verb doesn't describe the completion of
> the action, then the completion suffix isn't appropriate.
>
> Suppose I was an elf yesterday and I'm an orc today.
>
> *wa'Hu' **elf*
> * jIH *
> *I was an elf yesterday. *During yesterday, I was being an elf. I didn't
> complete being an elf during yesterday. I completed being an elf *after*
> yesterday, but I didn't say *DorDI' wa'Hu',* I said *wa'Hu'. *So being an
> elf was completed, but it wasn't completed during *yesterday.*
>
> *wa'Hu'** elf*
> * jIHpu' *
> *I was (and completed being) an elf yesterday. *During yesterday, I was
> and elf and then my being an elf was complete. I stopped being an elf
> during yesterday, though I had been one before that.
>
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