tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 23 18:41:17 1999
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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:02:32 EST
In a message dated 2/22/1999 12:58:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< A trick I often use myself is to ask if the word 'already' is
appropriate, and if it is, I put the verb in perfective. This
tends to do away with confusing aspect with tense, since it works
in any time frame: "I had already done..., I already did...,
I will have already done..."
>>
YOU may use this trick, but what basis do we have in the Klingon language that
this is the right trick to be using?
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