On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:15 AM mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
Suppose I write: {loSmaH wa' ben jIboghpu'} for "I am 41 years old".
Literally though, the klingon goes "41 years ago I have been born" i.e. 41 years ago my "being born" has been completed.
Lets forget this for the moment..
If I write {wa'Hu' pItSa' vISoppu'}, this means that "one day ago my eating the pizza has been completed". But I could have eaten this pizza many days ago, and yesterday is just another day during which my eating of the pizza continues to be completed.
I remember someone asked Okrand about something similar to this, and he replied that using {-pu'} with a time-stamp adverbial implies that the completion occured at the time of the time stamp. Sadly, I am having trouble finding the exact canon for this at the moment.