[tlhIngan Hol] When your car becomes a dog

[mayqel qunenoS]

HIvqa' veqlargh !

I meant " and since the matter of aspect came up.."

qunnoH jan puqloD
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'

On 7 Dec 2016 8:42 pm, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ok, thanks ! and since the matter of subject came up..
>
> do you know any site, where aspect as we use it in klingon is described ?
>
> I have searched repeatedly the web, but the only sites I find are
> discussing aspect in conjuction with tenses only to complicate things more.
> I need a site where only aspect, and that aspect as we use it in klingon,
> is described. but is there anywhere something like this ?
>
> qunnoH jan puqloD
> ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'
>
> On 7 Dec 2016 8:12 pm, "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>
>> On 12/7/2016 12:19 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>>
>> I wish klingon had tenses instead of aspect.. lets say I want to say "I
>> didn't know that"; what do I write ? {time-stamp jISovbe'} or {jISovbe'pu'}
>> ? Is my not-having-known a completed event or not ? I think it is a
>> completed event, which continues neverthless. go figure..
>>
>>
>> It's not a question of fact; it's a question of what you want to express. *I
>> didn't know that but now I do* might be expressed like so in this
>> context: *pab DaQIjpa' vISovbe'** before you explained the grammar I
>> didn't know it.* I didn't use any aspect here because I'm not trying
>> talk about anything completed; I'm talking about not knowing something and
>> I'm talking about a time before an explanation. I'm not interested in
>> talking about before the time an explanation was completed—though I could
>> do that and in this context it would still make sense. I'm not interested
>> in expressing that not knowing was completed.
>>
>> --
>> SuStelhttp://trimboli.name
>>
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