tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 02 11:25:35 2000
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RE: KLBC some practice sentences
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC some practice sentences
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:27:27 -0700
jatlh J:
>
> > be'Hom ghaHtaHvIS lurSa''e' tIqa' vIghro'Daj joy'pu'.
> > When Lursa was a little girl, she tortured her tika cat.
jIjang. jIjatlh:
> It's great up until the <-pu'>. The <-pu'> means the action
> is completed, but with the <-taHvIS> you're talking about
> when the action happened, so it couldn't be completed. Just
> remove the <-pu'> and everything works just fine.
jang J. jatlh:
> But I did mean the action is completed. Lursa is all grown up
> and torturing Worf now.
Aye, the action is completed *now*. But the context of your sentence is not
now. The context of your sentence is "When Lursa was a girl, ...". When she
was a girl, she was still torturing her cat.
be'Hom ghaHtaHvIS lurSa''e', tI'qa' vIghro'Daj joy'. DaH nenchoHpu', 'ej
wo'rIv joy'.
> be'Hom ghaH lurSa''e' tIqa' vIghro'Daj joy'pu'
> didn't seem to give that. ?
You also have a misspelling I missed in the last message - <tI'qa' vIghro'>.
pagh
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