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Re: Now and then?

David Trimboli ([email protected])

From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Now and then?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:17:54 -0500
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> On Nov 28, 2007 11:13 AM, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Voyages: now and then".

Qang qu'wI' wrote:
> maleng: malengtaH 'ej malengpu'
> 
> The verb approach loses (or at least doesn't necessarily convey) the plural
> sense that I have in the original as: "Voyages in the present, voyages in
> the past".

I read this as something not dissimilar to "Our continuing voyages and 
our completed voyages." Not a bad phrase, but it contains no past or 
present; the Klingon has only aspect. The original, to me, seems to be 
all about tense, not aspect.

SuStel
Stardate 7911.2

References:
- Now and then?
  - From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Re: Now and then?
  - From: "Qang qu'wI'" <[email protected]>

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