[tlhIngan Hol] Vanitas Vanitatum et Omnia Vanitas

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On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:06 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ghunchu'wI':
> >> {ret} alone, without being preceded by an actual specifier of a time
> >> period, is very odd.
> >
> > I know. Because of that reason in the original sentence I wrote {'op
> ret}.
>
> Do you understand the sentence you quoted? Do you know what "time period"
> means?
>
> {'op} just means "some, an unspecified amount". It isn't a time period
> like {rep} or {Hogh}. {'op ret} "some ago" is not a complete idea.
>

I think you might be out of the loop a bit. At the latest qep'a', MO
explicitly gave examples that {'op ret} and {'op pIq} were used for "at
some time in the past/future". It's the first image here:
http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/
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