tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 02 12:20:32 2000
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Re: KLBC some practice sentences
Actually Lursa isn't torturing any one now, because she was blown to bits by
a photon torpedoe is "Generations." She's probably in Grethor being
tortured by Fekhlar!
----- Original Message -----
From: Andeen, Eric <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: RE: KLBC some practice sentences
> 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
> Beginners' Grammarian
>
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