tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 13 12:52:58 2004

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Re: time

...Paul ([email protected])

• From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: time
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:59:33 -0800 (PST)
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> i think someone already told me that tlhIngan Hol doesn't have time
> references in tense form, so how would you say "we will speak later" or we' will talk
> later about this?'

The verbs are not formed with any specific tense, so you use things like
adverbs and/or context to indicate the future.

For example, you could just use the adverb /tugh/ "soon" to indicate that
you are not talking about "now".

...Paul

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