tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 21 14:21:03 1996
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Re: poH Dogh wIvlu'pu'
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: poH Dogh wIvlu'pu'
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:20:26 -0400
qaSDI' 96-08-21 06:21:16 EDT, jatlh A.Appleyard:
> > 'ej DaH 1996 Aug 26-Daq 'oH 'ang BBC TV2 (= England TV) ...
> D.Trimboli replied:-
> > August 26 is not now. Or do you mean that NOW they have SET the schedule
> to
> > show the episode then?
>
> Perhaps I should have put {... 'ang 'e' DaH nab BBC TV2 ..."}.
> (I wanted future tense, but TKD says Klingon has no verb future tense
and
> verb futureness is decided by context. {'angqang} = "is willing to show",
> {'angrup} = "is ready to show", but these are not plain futures. "will" in
> English "I will write", Anglo-Saxon "ic will wri~tan", originally meant
"is
> willing to, wants or intends to, {-qang}", but gradually slid into being a
> future tense.)
Well, first off, the {DaH} would *probably* go before the {'e'}, not after.
{'e'} is a pronoun which is placed in the object position, and {DaH} is a
time marker which comes before the object.
If you want future tense, just name the time at which the action occurs! If
you want to say "BBC TV2 will show the first 'Voyager' (episode) on August
26," then just say {*August 26* *Voyager* wa'DIch 'ang *BBC TV2*}. If you
want to say something like "BBC TV2 plans to show the first 'Voyager' on
August 26," then just add {'e' nab} or {DaH 'e' nab} to the end of that
sentence.
SuStel
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