[1248] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Reprise on Eng. tenses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 12 13:46:16 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Mark Reed <mark@cad.gatech.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 12:57:37 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <9307121421.AA07583@er.doe.gov> from "wigtil@oerv01.er.doe.gov" at
Jul 12, 93 10:21:54 am
\I see that I in my haste omitted the descriptions of the various future
\tense options. Correction below:
I must have missed #1-#14. This message came to me from out of the
blue. ("SuDvo'"? :-))
Did anyone else miss it, or was it just me?
\15. I will speak (multilateral agreement, single or repeated future event)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I disagree on this one. The simple future is also used in the
unilateral case. "I *will* speak." The distinction between "will" and
"be going to" is probably the haziest of the tense differences.
It appears that tlhIngan Hol lacks any such subtlety in the case of tense . . .
DoHa'. ("case of tense"? That sounds a bit oxymoronic from a linguistic
standpoint . . . "Here we have the nominative progressive, the genitive
perfect, the accusative future . . .")
-marqoS
