tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 13 05:16:23 1995
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tenses vs. time-stamps (was Re: leSpoH'a' wa'mah Soch)
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: tenses vs. time-stamps (was Re: leSpoH'a' wa'mah Soch)
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 07:15:06 -0700
r'Hul wrote:
> I knew about the lack of tenses. But since I wanted to say that something
> was happening before an event in the future, I couldn't just state a date.
However, you could have stated a date AND said that that the "something" was
happening before that date. There's a legitimate way to do that in Klingon.
> It's the weekend before the qep'a', July 7,8 & 9.
qaSpa' qep'a' qaS leSpoH'a' wa'maH Soch.
qaStaHvIS jar SochDIch jaj SochDIch jaj chorghDIch je jaj HutDIch je qaS 'oH.
-- ghunchu'wI'