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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Dec 4 04:14:24 2015
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:14:07 +0100
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Am 04.12.2015 um 09:35 schrieb De'vID:
> Who on the mailing list speaks a language with aspect?
I believe you just found the weak point of klingon learners and the main
problem of them struggling with aspect suffixes: Most of us confuse
aspect with past tense, because these are translated with the same
words: If you "have completed" something, then it must have happened in
the past.
Even after reading the wikipedia page onj aspect, it looks like a tense
form, so it really IS confusing for linguistic beginners.
But as a note for beginners: don't lose yourself in trying to find the
true meaning of it. Just learn te language, there are many easy parts
you can use to speak basic klingon.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net
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