[93612] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Time and Type 7 verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qov)
Sat Jun 9 11:51:51 2012
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:51:26 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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At 07:43 '?????' 6/9/2012, Andr=C3=A9 M=C3=BCller wrote:
>David,
>
>Similarly, the Perfective aspect in Russian =
>works differently from the Perfective aspect =
>marker (=E4=BA=86) in Chinese, although both encompass =
>the global definition of "perfective aspect". =
>It's now quite common to make this distinction =
>between capitalized and non-capitalized terms, =
>but not everyone does that. And it might not =
>have been as wide-spread decades ago when the TKD was written.
I was studying Russian in university while TKD =
was being written and never encountered the =
capitalized form in my many battles with =
perfective and imperfective verbs. In Russian, =
mastery of when to use each is often cited as =
something that an adult learner of the language =
will never achieve, so subtle and complex is the =
distinction, so I really don't have a problem =
with it being a bone of contention in Klingon.
- Qov =
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