tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 12 10:44:13 1999
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Re: Aspect
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>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:52:06 -0400
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>This explains to me why we get things like {ben 'ar bIboghpu'} from Okrand.
>I don't care WHEN it was completed. The action was completed (you're here,
>aren't you?), so it got a {-pu'}. I really don't believe Okrand was
>interested in the "it's true every day except your birthday" idea. That
>seems much like relying on a technicality, something rather un-Klingon in my
>mind.
I *really* doubt Okrand ever considered this business about "except on your
birthday"; that's more of an in-joke among Klingonists. It doesn't sound
like something any natural language-speaker would fuss about.
~mark