<p dir="ltr">maj SuStel !</p>
<p dir="ltr">wa'leS, mu'meylIj vIpoj ! DaH, whisky vItlhutlhta'mo' 'ej jIDoy'mo', jIQongnIS ! murIt QongDaqwIj..</p>
<p dir="ltr">jIQongtaHvIS, nIyma'pu' vIleghbe'. 'e' vItul !</p>
<p dir="ltr">qunnoq<br>
ghogh HablI'vo aah who cares..</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 Aug 2016 8:35 p.m., "SuStel" <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>On 8/23/2016 11:56 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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      <pre>SuStel:
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        <pre>That's your error. During the "once," they were still
elves. When it was "once," being elves wasn't completed.
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      <pre>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 ?
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    <p>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.<br>
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    <p>Suppose I was an elf yesterday and I'm an orc today.</p>
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      <p><b>wa'Hu' </b><i>elf</i><b> jIH<br>
        </b><i>I was an elf yesterday.<br>
        </i>During yesterday, I was being an elf. I didn't complete
        being an elf during yesterday. I completed being an elf <i>after</i>
        yesterday, but I didn't say <b>DorDI' wa'Hu',</b> I said <b>wa'Hu'.
        </b>So being an elf was completed, but it wasn't completed
        during <i>yesterday.</i><br>
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      <p><b>wa'Hu'</b><i> elf</i><b> jIHpu'<br>
        </b><i>I was (and completed being) an elf yesterday.<br>
        </i>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.<br>
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    <pre cols="72">-- 
SuStel
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