tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 30 17:14:06 1994
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Re: Good day to die.
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- Subject: Re: Good day to die.
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 20:13:38 EDT
>I don't think this will ever be solved to everyone's satisfaction >unless,
by some miracle, we find a way to form infinitives or >gerunds.
I've noticed this before, and perhaps I shouldn't mention it, but....
Technically, all verbs in Klingon are infinitives. The "infinitive" form of
a verb is simply the form which is uninflected for tense. Klingon doesn't
inflect verbs for tense, so they are all, by definition, tenseless, no tense,
no time, non-finite, infinite.
It really doesn't make sense to say something like, "all our problems would
be sovlved if we could form infinitives!"
--Holtej