tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 31 17:58:45 1999
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Re: loQ jIrop
In a message dated 3/31/1999 10:25:53 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< I'm curious if anyone else had difficulty understanding this.
cha'leS wa'ben bangwI' vItlhejchoH. I began to accompany my
love a year ago two days from now. Is it really that odd?
Yes, I do recognize that you can overstretch this kind of
specificity, but we have canon for using one time stamp as
anchor for another, like {wa'Hu' ram} for "last night".
>>
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I am not questioning the validity at all. It just took some twisting and
turning of the reading to figure out what it means. Maybe when I've read many
more such constructions, they will seem common to me.
peHruS