[tlhIngan Hol] Why the half-measure of 'e' neHbe' vavoy?

[mayqel qunen'oS]

SuStel:
> You still tend to use -pu' as a tense-
> marker instead of a perfective-marker. -
> pu' doesn't mean happened before —
> that's tense. It means expressed as a
> completed whole or comes to an end in
> the moment being described.

I thought that since at the moment when 'a'Serbut says the {'e' neHbe'
vavoy} her father is dead, his desire is a completed event, thus the
(rule-breaking) perfective on the {neH} of the sao.

~ Dana'an
remain klingon
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