[Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc

[Will Martin]

reH balth vIvang. Doj laHlIj.

People can have different ideas about how this works. The critical thing for me is that we can understand each other as we use the language, and despite the apparent contrast in the group’s opinions voiced in these debates, at a root level, those who can speak the language fairly well can understand each other quite well, so I’m satisfied.

I will always try to improve both my understanding of the language and its use, and to improve my teaching others as they seek my help. I think this is generally true of all of us, and for many years now, for you.

Even if you are daft wrong about perfective (and I don’t think you are really that far off the mark), you are and have long been one of the best speakers of the language, as is SuStel, and less than I used to be, but still pretty good, me.

Differences of opinion do not require disrespect, so please do not misinterpret anything as disrespectful.

toH, yIjatlhtaH, jupwI’.

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Dec 4, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
> 
> I clearly don't have the internalized understanding of aspect that
> others do. It is increasingly apparent that my desire to understand
> aspect based mostly on TKD's explanations isn't working as a basis for
> debate.
> 
> It's also increasingly frustrating for me to read things like "the
> action continues, but it isn't a continuous action" and "the existence
> of an aspect marker usually means something besides what an aspect
> marker means." I can't tell where my lack of understanding is due to
> ignorance, where it's due to stubbornness, or where it's due to the
> supposed explanation having an error.
> 
> So I think my most promising course of action is this: I will continue
> to use aspect suffixes the way I have been using them, which I still
> think is consistent with the examples I know. I will continue not to
> challenge their use unless it's something that I can't make sense out
> of. And I will stop trying to wrap my head around the theories that
> don't limit themselves to the specific words used to describe aspect
> in TKD, because I always get more heartburn than pleasure out of this
> particular attempt to analyze Klingon.
> 
> tIqwIj Sa'angnISbe'. DaHjaj Hol SuvwI' jIHbe'. Hol jatlhwI''e'
> vIDaqa'. jatwIj'e' Sa'ang jay'!
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
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