[86035] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: KLBC: The North Wind and the Sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Fri Jun 26 18:39:10 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A4542AC.80805@trimboli.name>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:36:04 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:50 PM, David Trimboli<david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> We generally accept that Okrand's use of aspect suffixes in TKD is
> suspect, and we even know the reason: {-pu'} started out as a tense
> suffix, but script rewrites forced him to change its meaning.
Hm. I know about other changes, such as the infamous resubtitling of
{qamapu' jonta' neH} "I told you engine only!" as "I wanted
prisoners!", which gave us the noun {qama}, the use of {-pu'} as a
plural suffix, the {-ta'} suffix for goal achievement, and the verb
{neH}. (And took away the verb {ma} "tell", which became {ra}, to
make the substitution less apparent.) But I'm not familiar with a
script-triggered recasting of tense as aspect, and I can't think of
any instances of {-pu'} in ST3 that weren't in the past tense as well
as in the perfective aspect. Are the details available somewhere?
HolQeD, perhaps?
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
