[tlhIngan Hol] Using -ta' during -taHvIS

[Daniel Dadap]

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 08:20, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
> 
> {qama'pu' jonta' neH} gave us not only Clipped Klingon, {-pu'} as a plural marker for beings capable of speech, {-ta'} as an aspect marker for completed intentional actions, {neH} as a verb, and the special rule that {neH} doesn’t use the pronoun {'e'} when taking a sentence as its object, but *also* the rule forbidding aspect markers on a verb that takes a sentence as its object

I forgot to include “the meaning of the verb {ma'}” to this already very long list. I imagine that {ma'} was originally meant to mean something like {ja'} does now, and wonder whether we wouldn’t have the similarity between {jatlh}, {ja'}, {jat}, and {jach} if he weren’t forced to change {ma'} to mean something else, to make the backfit less obvious.

Clearly, hiding backfits became harder to do over the years, as evidenced by {vaj toDuj Daj ngeHbej DI vI'} and all of Star Trek: Into Darkness.