On 8/22/2016 11:52 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
lieven:
If you think "because it happened in the past", then drop it. good point. but the question now arises: usually the things which have happened in the past, haven't been completed as well ?
You're not building sentences based on logical truths; you're building context. Something may have been completed in the past, but are you TALKING about it being completed? For instance, *wa'Hu' pItSa' vISop*/yesterday, I ate pizza. /It says that pizza-eating happened yesterday, but in that sentence pizza-eating was NOT completed. It is a statement of general truth. General truths are not completed; the FACT of my eating pizza was not completed. Pizza-eating happened yesterday. But then there's *wa'Hu' pItSa' vISoppu'*/yesterday, I ate pizza./ English makes no distinction, but it means something different in Klingon. Yesterday there was pizza-eating, and I'm telling you that I ate and finished eating it. This is not a general truth; this is describing a specific event. Yesterday, pizza-eating happened and completed. The former version might be an answer to the question *wa'Hu' nuq DaSop */what did you eat yesterday?/ The latter to the question *wa'Hu' nuq Data'pu'*/what did you do yesterday?/ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name