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Re: (KLBC) Is this right?

Lawrence Schoen ([email protected])

• From: "Lawrence Schoen" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: (KLBC) Is this right?
• Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:23:36 -0800

ghItlh ngabwI':

>I like it because someone who isn't *continuously* patient simply 
>isn't patient. It just so happens that the {-taHghach} ending, so 
>dreadfully common in poor translations, fits in with the concept 
>of being patient beautifully.

And this is one of the things I like about aspect in Klingon. It 
makes me think up things like putting {-pu'ghach} on the verb, just
to talk about subtle things like patience that is *not* continuous,
the kind of patience that has been used up.

Lawrence

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