tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 27 14:22:36 2006
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Re: double-checking
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: double-checking
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:22:18 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ter'eS, ja':
>"Our gods are dead" isn't a statement of past tense
>or of completion; it's a statement of their current
>state of non-existence.
But since Klingon has no stative verb for "be dead", we have to use {Hegh}
"to die" instead, and "to be dead" carries the same implications for me as
"to have died", with the same idea of completion. I have no problem with
{Heghpu' Qunma'} "our gods have died".
>"Klingon warriors killed
>them a millenium ago" does refer to a past event,
>but the time stamp {wa'SaD ben} clearly establishes
>the time, and since we know the gods are all
>dead, the warriors must have completed the job.
This I agree with. There's no need for an aspect suffix on the second
sentence IMHO.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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