tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 07 20:03:45 1997
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RE: uses of rIntaH
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: uses of rIntaH
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 97 02:13:11 UT
jatlh qoror:
> I just thought of a way to do "continuous perfect." It
> might only have a narrowed usage, but it could be used for such things as
> "I've been patrolling the ship."
>
> "Duj vIngIvtaH rIntaH."
That's clever, but I seriously doubt that Klingon would let you use an aspect
suffix of any kind and {rIntaH} at the same time.
> Here's another use of it: closing letters. Much less radical, but for,
> for instance, when a string is completed, the conflict resolved.
Huh? Why not, when you've finished a letter, you just simply stop writing?
> It could be
> sufficiently modified -- for instance, one of peHruS's string originations
> could
> be "rInbe'taH," and some other things like, perhaps, "rInlaw'taH" when it
> seems
> to be over.
The accepted construction is when you stick {rIntaH} after the verb. There's
no other combination mentioned in TKD, and I suspect that this is a fossilized
form of some other, longer or more complex construction. I just simply doubt
that this would be in the language. Remember, {rIntaH} itself is irregular;
don't expect to stretch it too far.
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SuStel
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