[Tlhingan-hol] Translating the past

[ghunchu'wI']

On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:53 AM, "Robyn Stewart" <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

> So why do you think Marc Okrand uses the perfective so much more than we do?  

My guess is that he doesn't do a lot of extended reporting on or discussion of past events, where the time context is already established before most of the description occurs.

> There can easily be something special about hunger and thirst.

Such special pleading is not necessary. The paq'batlh has many other relevant examples, most of which have active verbs like {leng} and {Qoy} and {qel}.

-- ghunchu'wI'