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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Time and Type 7 verb suffixes

Qov ([email protected])



At 07:43 '?????' 6/9/2012, André Müller wrote:
David,

Similarly, the Perfective aspect in Russian works differently from the Perfective aspect marker (�) in Chinese, although both encompass the global definition of "perfective aspect". It's now quite common to make this distinction between capitalized and non-capitalized terms, but not everyone does that. And it might not have been as wide-spread decades ago when the TKD was written.

I was studying Russian in university while TKD was being written and never encountered the capitalized form in my many battles with perfective and imperfective verbs. In Russian, mastery of when to use each is often cited as something that an adult learner of the language will never achieve, so subtle and complex is the distinction, so I really don't have a problem with it being a bone of contention in Klingon.

- Qov

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