[Tlhingan-hol] A question on aspect

qunnoQ HoD mihkoun at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 12:43:38 PDT 2015


> (It's as wrong as "I'm killinged him")

ok,i understand now that it is wrong,and i certainly will not use it ; but
out of curiosity.. if someone fluent in Klingon heard this (the
{nughoStaHpu'} or {nughoSpu'taH}) do you think he would understand what i
would be trying to say ?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 25.10.2015 um 15:26 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
>
>> i'm pretty sure that the answer will be <<no>>,but just to err on the
>> safe side i will ask anyway..
>>
>
> Indeed, the answer is no.
>
> But even from the english point of view, how can something be
> "continuously ongoing" and be "finished" on the same time?
>
> Think about that. :-)
>
> (It's as wrong as "I'm killinged him")
>
> --
> Lieven L. Litaer
> aka Quvar valer 'utlh
> Grammarian of the KLI
> http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
> http://www.klingonwiki.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20151025/6e0f1edb/attachment.html>


More information about the Tlhingan-hol mailing list