[tlhIngan Hol] ordering and scope of adverbials relative to timestamps

[SuStel]

On 2/8/2019 9:50 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
> Am 08.02.2019 um 15:47 schrieb De'vID:
>> What about {wa' ben tugh [qaSpu' wanI']} "one year ago it will have 
>> happened soon"? Or is the combination of {wa' ben} with {tugh} weird?
>
> I always thought that {tugh} refers to a time from NOW on. How does it 
> work in English? 

In English you can't say /One year ago soon an event happened./ You can 
say /One year ago an event was about to happen,/ but we don't have the 
equivalent grammar for that in Klingon.

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SuStel
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