tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 06 13:52:34 1999
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Re: My chance to make mistakes
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: My chance to make mistakes
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:52:31 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
- Priority: NORMAL
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:15:10 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/4/1999 9:10:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> << > Daq QavDaq Sut Huj tuQbogh loD pI' wIqIHpu'
"At the final location, we had met for the first time a fat man
who wore a strange suit," or "At the final location, we had met
for the first time a strange suit worn by a fat man."
Perfective. When you were at the final place, you had already
met this man. Unless, of course, you didn't really mean to add
{-pu'} to the verb.
> Supawpa' boqIHpu''a'? nuqDaq boqIH? >>
>
> chaq vIqonHa' wIqIH qaq law' wIqIHpu' qaq puS 'e' DaQub'a'
>
> qach QavDaq mapawpa' not loDvetlh Huj wIleghpu'
> DaqvetlhDaq wIqIH
'e' vIpIH, 'ach jaS bIjatlh.
> peHruS
charghwI' 'utlh