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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/23/2016 11:56 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre wrap="">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 wrap="">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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