[93580] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] A demonstration of aspect we can all follow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jun 7 16:42:53 2012
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:42:39 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120607135812.085028d0@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 6/7/2012 4:08 PM, Qov wrote:
>
> At 13:49 '?????' 6/7/2012, you wrote:
>> If I wanted to indicate a never-ending interrogation session, -taH
>> or -lI' would have been needed, but then it would have been an
>> interrogation whose flow in time was being described as continuous,
>> rather than any other the other meanings.
>
> I'm not sure that it has to be never ending, just that what is being
> described is the session, not its completion.
jIQochbe'.
> jaj Hoch qama' vIyu'lI'. Hoch De' vISuqta' 'e' wuqDI' ra'wI'wI',
> qama' vIHoHta' 'ej 'uQ vISopmeH jImejpu'.
>
> DaparHa''a'?
Everything except possibly the {vISuqta'}. If you meant to say "When my
commander decided that I had acquired all the information," then you're
employing past perfect tense. If you mean something like "When my
commander decided that I had started and completed acquiring all the
information," then I'd accept it, although it seems a strange way to say it.
I'm not sure what the alternative is, though.
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