Am 22.08.2016 um 16:59 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
Many times I have a hard time *feeling* the difference between tense and aspect, thus the confusion. And the problem is, I can't find a way to overcome this problem.
The confusion lies in the english translation. I'm not sure this helps, but I'll try anyway. The difference is the following: (please any linguistic expert forgive me if I'm not 100% accurate, it's partially done intentionally) Tense is about time, talking about things happening in the past, but also the future. Aspect talks about the completeness of an event: it may be ongoing or may be finished. As I wrote before, you can do nothing wrong when you only write without using the aspect. Now pay attention: Wehn you FEEL about the need of using an aspect suffix, think about the following points first: - Why do you use it? If you think "because it happened in the past", then drop it. - Is it a completed action? Do you want to focus on the completion of the action? is that important to mention? "I killed him." period. It's over. -> use Aspect suffix "I ate the pizza." It's gone now. -> use Aspect suffix If you are still not sure, of course you can ask someone, but if unsure, it's better to avoid it. That's never wrong. ------------ I won't give more examples for not confusing you, and I intentionally did not talk about the other aspect suffixes. You will learn it over time.
Believe it or not (this will sound strange), I find rather creepy to use {targh} for dog. Why ? Because klingons eat the heart of targs, and it gives me the creeps just to think of a dog being treated that way.
I understand. Actually, the Targ is more like a pig. But I like using the word anyway, since we have no word closer to the meaning of a dog. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net