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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/2019 9:31 AM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 08:20, Daniel Dadap <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:daniel@dadap.net" moz-do-not-send="true"><daniel@dadap.net></a> wrote:
{qama'pu' jonta' neH} gave us not only Clipped Klingon, {-pu'} as a plural marker for beings capable of speech, {-ta'} as an aspect marker for completed intentional actions, {neH} as a verb, and the special rule that {neH} doesn’t use the pronoun {'e'} when taking a sentence as its object, but <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>also<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> the rule forbidding aspect markers on a verb that takes a sentence as its object
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I forgot to include “the meaning of the verb {ma'}” to this already very long list. I imagine that {ma'} was originally meant to mean something like {ja'} does now, and wonder whether we wouldn’t have the similarity between {jatlh}, {ja'}, {jat}, and {jach} if he weren’t forced to change {ma'} to mean something else, to make the backfit less obvious.</pre>
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<p><b>-pu'</b> was originally a past-tense marker, and <b>ma'</b>
meant what <b>ja'</b> means now. <b>ma'</b> means <i>accommodate</i>
because Okrand had to accommodate the script-change with all this
new stuff. Klingon switched to aspect instead of tense because it
made no sense to have past tense on the new verb <b>jon, </b>no
matter what the suffix.<br>
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