tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 27 11:37:41 2003
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Re: time contexts
From: <[email protected]>
> > the speaker is
> > overwhelmingly likely to have a time context in mind for it.
>
> there is ALWAYS a time context - namely, the time the sentence is uttered.
If I say /moH yIH/, that statement doesn't have a time context. It doesn't
mean "Tribbles are ugly as I say this." It is simply assigning a condition
to tribbles: that of being ugly.
SuStel
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