RE: KLBC some practice sentences

["Andeen, Eric" <Eric.Andeen@Sequencia.com>]

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'>.


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