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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] finer shades of perfective aspect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mayqel qunen'oS)
Thu Feb 28 04:37:26 2019
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From: "mayqel qunen'oS" <mihkoun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:37:11 +0200
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De'vID:
> I've always thought the exhaustive aspect to be very useful, and wish we had it in Klingon.
I think you're over-influenced by your background in chinese, the same
way I would be as far as greek is concerned.
Since we don't have this "exhaustive aspect" in greek, I find it
unnecessary. The way I find unnecessary all the crap like:
One word for "the brother's sister mother's daughters cat's dog's" relative.
Another word for "the brother's mother's grandfather's who cares" relative.
An additional word for "the sister's daughter's targ's fiancee"
god-forsaken relative.
Since greek (thank Zeus) doesn't have them, I find all these klingon
words unnecessary.
So, my point is, that depending on our native languages we tend to
consider things as crucial or totally unncessary, without this meaning
that there is an absolute truth in all this.
And being on the subject, I find it irritating (to put it mildly),
that while we *do* have words for the "brother's sister's daughter's
son in law, of the illegitimate brother of the second alien, who
happened to orbit kronos on the day three dogs were in heat", but we
can't differentiate between a tendon and a ligament, since we have the
same word for both of them..
~ Capricorn
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