[Tlhingan-hol] A question on aspect

[Robyn Stewart]

If I were to hear {nughoStaHpu'}, I’d assume the speaker started to say {nughoStaH} and then circumstances changed and {nughoSpu’} became a more reasonable thing to say.  Like if someone said, “It will be ready this afternoon evening.”  The two things contradict, so I assume the second one is a correction.

 

I say {nughoSpu’taH} to myself I imagine that I was saying {nughoSpu’} because I thought it was over, and then realize mid-word that they were still coming.

 

If you want to say that something that is now finished was ongoing at some point, then just say when it happened:

wa’Hu’ nughoStaH. -- Yesterday they were approaching us. 

wa’Hu’ nughoStaH ghIq nujuSpu’.  – Yesterday they were approaching us and then they had passed us.

wa’leS nughoSpu’. – Tomorrow they will have approached us.

 

- Qov




 

From: qunnoQ HoD [mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com] 
Sent: October 25, 2015 12:44
To: Lieven
Cc: tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] A question on aspect

 

> (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
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