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Re: Repetition



In a message dated 96-01-23 08:00:43 EST, you write:

>qeSmIv HarghwI' writes:
>>      That sounds good, but I still need a way to say "in February."  How
>>about the following, forgetting about the year altogether?  (We know what
>>year we're in.)
>>          juSvIS jar cha'Dich nargh <logh Hop Hut> lut chu'

Being a speaker of Chinese, I do not see any need whatsoever for showing
duration on time words by use of syntactical markers.

jar cha'DICH QorDu'wI' vISuch vIneH  is good enough, according to the
feelings I get translating from Chinese, which says er-ywe wo yau chyu
bai-fang wo jya-li-de ren.

er-ywe simply means February, but conveys anytime during February.







                                                                      ^^^^^^^

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