tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 04 19:52:49 1996
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Re: KLBC: Re: Hamlet
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: Hamlet
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:29:01 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from Oliver Pereira on Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:51:16 -0800)
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>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:51:16 -0800
>From: Oliver Pereira <[email protected]>
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>It's rather confusing: I've previously been learning a language with tense
>and no aspect (Esperanto); now I'm learning one with aspect and no tense.
>Tricky.
Not really. Esperanto can actually be quite helpful. The participle
suffixes -inta/-anta/-onta are actually very similar. -inta is a
perfective aspect, indicating that at the time we're dealing with, the
action is in the past. -anta is imperfective, that it's still going on
(though -taH also has some features of Esperanto -ad). -onta is a
"not-yet" aspect: the action is not complete at the time in question, and
for that matter hasn't yet begun. It has no equivalent in Klingon.
~mark
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