tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 07 20:54:09 1997
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Re: Return to school
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Return to school
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 23:54:09 -0400
>>I suggest for "I went back to school yesterday" {wa'Hu' DuSaQDaq
>jIghojqa'}.
>> This translates literally as "I started studying again at school
>yesterday."
>
>Although this may be covered with the use of {wa'Hu'}, I would still use
>a suffix like {-pu'} or {-ta} on {jIghojqa'} to indicate that the
>action was completed.
>
>jIghojqa'ta'
I don't agree.
First: the action is not completed, you are still learning. If chegh
(return) was used, then -ta' might work. <jIghojqa'> is <I resume learning>
or <I am learning again>. <jIghojqa'ta'> - <I have learned again>. Sure
you could probably say <I have *resumed* learning> putting the -ta' on the
<resume> instead of the <learn>; it may work in English, but I don't think
it works in klingon.
Second: <wa'Hu'> and the <-ta'> says that as of yesturday, the task had
already been comleted. I think you were trying tense instead of aspect.
Grammarians?
DloraH