SuStel
QInlIj tlhaQlaw'ghach vIyajbe'.
tagha' dogwIj quH mojpu' Hatlhvetlh ; quHwIj mojbe'. meqvammo', tlhaQ lutvam ! SuStel:
Your use of aspect has been turning into tense lately. Be careful!
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. lieven:
I would suggest you use {targh} to talk about your dog
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. qunnoq On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:41 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 8/22/2016 10:34 AM, Lieven wrote:
{ben law' targh vIghaj. ngugh 'oHvaD ghawran vIpong.} This sentence is completely correct, without needing any aspect suffix.
Ah, I see, we're disagreeing about whether qunnoq was talking about having named his dog or what he called his dog. In English it is the difference between name and call. If I name something, that is a one-time event; if I call something by a name, that is usually an ongoing occurrence.
Either form would have been sensible in Klingon, but they would have meant different things.
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