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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Wed Dec 2 06:49:40 2015
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 06:49:21 -0500
To: De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
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... which is pretty much indistinguishable in meaning to {targh vIHoHpu'.}
But uglier. Approximate, but not inaccurate. How Terran.
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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
> On Dec 2, 2015, at 4:50 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> QISta':
>> Also, in regards to "time-stamps", I see that one can say "a year ago" and
>> such, but how would one express that something happened at some unspecified
>> time in the past (or in the future, for that matter)?
>
> SuStel:
>>> I believe paq'batlh has {'op ben} for "some years ago."
>
> QeS 'utlh:
>> It also has the formally compounded {'opleS} "someday (in the future)"
>> (paq'batlh: paq'yav 2.8, 2.11-12).
>
> Which makes me believe that {'opHu'} is perfectly good Klingon for
> "some unspecified time in the past".
>
> {'opHu' targh vIHoH} "some day in the past, I killed a targ".
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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