tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 05 09:03:24 1999
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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:03:22 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:51:29 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
> TKD p41 says: "{-pu'} perfective. This suffix indicates that an action is
> completed. It is often TRANSLATED by the English present perfect (have done
> something).
>
> I do not believe that you would say that because the Klingon perfective
> TRANSLATES into English as present perfect that it IS the tense present
> perfect.
>
> peHruS
To quote our president, "That depends on what your definition of
'is' is."
I doubt this particular argument will illuminate much.
charghwI' 'utlh