tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 19 20:23:30 1998
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Re: Translation of English Past and Present Perfect Tenses in Klingon
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Translation of English Past and Present Perfect Tenses in Klingon
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:22:32 -0800
At 12:24 98-01-07 -0800, ~mark wrote:
}>It's one of those extra-tricky problems, because you don't usually think of
}>{-vIS} or {-taHvIS} as Type 7, you just think of it as a frequently used
}>construction. But it's a no-no.
}
}Yuck-o-rama. That sucks. The "obscure rule" of no type-7s after 'e' is
}bad enough, but to have it apply when there's a -taH there only because it
}needs to come before -vIS? That's annoying and a pain and seems a very
}arbitrary restriction on the language with no basis in meaning. @Sigh.
}I'm going to hope cannon comes out to contradict this.
Yuck-o-rama. You're so articulate, ~mark. Personally, in about two months
time I'm going to ignore this rule completely.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian