tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 12 22:14:20 1999
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Re: Aspect
In a message dated 8/12/99 1:43:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:
<< >This explains to me why we get things like {ben 'ar bIboghpu'} from
Okrand.
>I don't care WHEN it was completed. The action was completed (you're here,
>aren't you?), so it got a {-pu'}. I really don't believe Okrand was
>interested in the "it's true every day except your birthday" idea. That
>seems much like relying on a technicality, something rather un-Klingon in my
>mind.
I *really* doubt Okrand ever considered this business about "except on your
birthday"; that's more of an in-joke among Klingonists. It doesn't sound
like something any natural language-speaker would fuss about.
~mark
>>
SatlhIj, 'ach De'vam vISovbe'. Could someone elighten me as to this whole
birthday thing?
T'Lod