<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2016 12:19 PM, mayqel qunenoS
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAP7F2cJD7arG8=WnPr_BwHKAoib2fFzDmvAi1vn-wXX0sbMh7w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I wish klingon had tenses instead of aspect.. lets say
I want to say "I didn't know that"; what do I write ? {time-stamp
jISovbe'} or {jISovbe'pu'} ? Is my not-having-known a completed
event or not ? I think it is a completed event, which continues
neverthless. go figure..</blockquote>
<br>
<p>It's not a question of fact; it's a question of what you want to
express. <i>I didn't know that but now I do</i> might be
expressed like so in this context: <b>pab DaQIjpa' vISovbe'</b><i>
before you explained the grammar I didn't know it.</i> I didn't
use any aspect here because I'm not trying talk about anything
completed; I'm talking about not knowing something and I'm talking
about a time before an explanation. I'm not interested in talking
about before the time an explanation was completed—though I could
do that and in this context it would still make sense. I'm not
interested in expressing that not knowing was completed.</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
SuStel
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trimboli.name">http://trimboli.name</a></pre>
</body>
</html>