tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 24 18:19:02 1999
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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:12:13 EST
In a message dated 2/24/1999 8:07:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< I didn't realize that charghwI' was responding to you, peHruS. I
thought he
was making some general observations for newbies. I also didn't realize
that
you don't accept that the suffixes <-ta'/-pu'> indicate completion, and
not
tense. If you don't accept that, then of course this trick won't work
for
you.
-- ter'eS >>
====================
I definitely look at verb suffixes type 7 as aspect markers, not tense
markers. I am bilingual, completely fluent in another language which does not
have tense.
The "trick" I use is to compare Klingon to that language in regard to when and
where and how to use aspect suffixes.
peHruS