tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 13 12:34:09 1996
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Re: KLBC: Motto
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Motto
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:34:07 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:45:01 PDT." <[email protected]>
> As to the timing... Don't get caught in details. Think of the sentences as
> they come in: we have/had/will have arrived. We have/had/will have seen.
> We have/had/will have conquered. The grammar doesn't imply any temporal
> ordering, nor does the English (or Latin) for that matter. The ordering is
> purely on the semantic/pragmatic level.
>
Ah. I see. That makes sense. I was originally thinking of joining them
with {je'} as a means to 'bundle' the sentences into one statement,
making them 'more simultaneous', kind of... but I guess one gets that
by simply marking one with {-DI'} (as soon as we accomplished one, we
accomplished two and three) - o.k.
qatlho'
HomDoq