<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">It wasn't relevant to the question being asked, so it wasn't needed for my examples. <div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: D qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 7/17/22 2:29 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@kli.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] thoughts on the perfective {-pu'} </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">SuStel:<div dir="auto">> I'm going to drop the -ta' because it freaks me out</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, this disturbs me too. It seems "unnatural".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But the problem here is that De'vID said that this is the corrected version of that sentence. Meaning that 'oqranD decided to keep this {-ta'}, which shows that perhaps there's some grammar at work, which he hasn't yet explained, perhaps as was the case with the {xlu' 'e' ylu'}.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I'm wondering what is he ('oqranD) expecting before he clarifies this. As was the case with the {tlheD} where he didn't answer if and when we'd need to add {-vo'} on the departure point.<br><br><div dir="auto" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Dana'an<br><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br>Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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