[Tlhingan-hol] Translating the past

[SuStel]

On 4/12/2014 10:23 AM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:

> *wa'Hu' **jIghung.*	/Yesterday I was hungry./
> *DaHjaj jI'oj.*	/Today I am thirsty./
> *wa'leS jIDoy'.*	/Tomorrow I'll be tired./
>
> This doesn't merely support the "no aspect can be any tense" position.
> It /prescribes/ it.

I wasn't hungry at a particular moment yesterday, I was just hungry in 
general. If I said {wa'Hu' jIghungpu'} I'd be saying there was a 
particular moment yesterday when I was hungry.

These sentences do, by the way, exhibit tense. The tense simply isn't 
encoded in a verb suffix. They also exhibit aspect. The aspect is one of 
generality.

Yesterday (tense), over the course of the day (aspect), I was hungry.

If I said {wa'Hu' jIghungchoH}, that's another aspect: yesterday there 
was a time when I wasn't hungry, then that changed and I was hungry from 
that point forward. This might be called ingressive aspect. Yet it's not 
from a Type 7 suffix!

> Our principal example of canonical Klingon narrative, the paq'batlh,

When did a story not written by Okrand become "our principal example of 
canonical Klingon narrative"?

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