tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 05 09:03:24 1999

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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes



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



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