[93565] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Time and Type 7 verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jun 7 12:55:18 2012
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:54:58 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <3D89E9E9-152F-4B1D-8CE6-2DE448FC9B0C@gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 6/7/2012 11:54 AM, lojmIt tI'wI'nuv wrote:
>
> I'm not going to quote TKD. Just read it. I did. I looked for
> evidence to support your argument. I couldn't find any. I'm open to
> your pointing out something that I missed.
Gee whiz, I didn't think to actually *read* the book that I've been
quoting over and over! What a good idea!
Since I'm quoting the evidence and you still can't find it, I don't see
any reason to continue to try to convince you. You don't want to even
examine the evidence.
> {wa'Hu' 'uQ vISop.}
>
> I don't believe that is a grammatical error, even though it describes
> a single event that occurred in its entirety during the time span of
> the time stamp. I honestly believe you are the only person in the
> Universe who might claim that it is an error because it lacks
> {-pu'}.
It is not an error. It just doesn't mean exactly what you think it
means. It means that eating dinner was happening at some time yesterday.
It would not be used to tell a story like "Yesterday I sat at the table,
ate dinner, and then got up." That story would require perfective
suffixes on its verbs. But it could be used, say, to confirm that you
didn't skip a meal yesterday.
You do not understand what "perfective" means, so you choose to ignore
it. You also don't don't seem to understand the difference between
objective reality and language expressing from a viewpoint. You
continually demonstrate that you can't predict what sentences I will
accept or reject. I can't think of anything else I can say to improve
your understanding of these things.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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