ok, thanks ! and since the matter of subject came up..

do you know any site, where aspect as we use it in klingon is described ?

I have searched repeatedly the web, but the only sites I find are discussing aspect in conjuction with tenses only to complicate things more. I need a site where only aspect, and that aspect as we use it in klingon, is described. but is there anywhere something like this ?

qunnoH jan puqloD
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'

On 7 Dec 2016 8:12 pm, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 12/7/2016 12:19 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:

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..

It's not a question of fact; it's a question of what you want to express. I didn't know that but now I do might be expressed like so in this context: pab DaQIjpa' vISovbe' before you explained the grammar I didn't know it. 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.

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