tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 18 18:29:54 2001
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Re: KLBC first post (p'an)
Library:
> I am imagining a Klingon trying to learn English, being told that "will"
> in a sentence can either be an indefinite time stamp meaning an action
> hasn't started yet (a weird concept for a speaker of a language that
> doesn't have tense) OR it can be equivalent to -qang.
Hmm, look it up in a dictionary...
In the 1st person, will is equivalent to -qang, shall is the time stamp.
In the 2nd and 3rd persons, it's the other way around.
Jiri
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