[Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc

[De'vID]

De'vID:
>> I think that the bulk of the canon, and especially the early canon,
>> conforms to the prescription of aspect given in TKD. Okrand very
>> deliberately chose aspect over tense to make Klingon un-English-like.
>> It might be that he later forgot this or was sometimes sloppy about
>> it, but at least TKD records his intention.

ghunchu'wI':
> I think that a lot of TKD's examples still show the influence of
> {-pu'} having originally been intended as indicating past tense. His
> choice to eliminate tense and substitute aspect was a way to make a
> repurposed movie subtitle into a fully grammatically correct sentence.
> That was done after most of TKD was already written.

That's a fair point. I would have hoped that he'd have gone back and
revised the parts he'd already written, but as we know, TKD is rather
imperfect and contains errors.

As published, though, what TKD says about aspect is that when aspect
markers are present, it usually means that the action isn't one of the
things indicated by an aspect marker, and I see no reason to doubt
this.

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De'vID