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RE: no matter what happens...

Eric Andeen ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

Voragh:

> {SISpu'} "it has rained") makes sense, but not *{SISta'}.  

> {SIStaH} "it rains continuously, it's still raining" makes sense, 
> but not *{SISlI'}... unless, of course, that you can control the 
> weather - which might be possible in the future! (g>  (E.g. "Today 
> in the First City, government meteorologists have scheduled rain 
> this morning for three hours, ending at noon.")

I think <SISlI'> may work for some of the desert thunderstorms we get where
I live. The rain starts abruptly, it rains hard for a short while, and then
it stops. Sometimes they last as little as ten minutes, and sometimes you
can even see the stormcloud passing overhead. I'd say this kind of rain has
a definite stopping point.

In general, though, <SIStaH> is much more likely to be correct.

pagh

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