[tlhIngan Hol] time words and deixis

[SuStel]

On 11/29/2017 1:22 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> I'm not quite sure I understand the subject.
>
> But if indeed I understand what we are trying to say, then why not use:
>
> {loS maH ben jIbogh. ngugh..}
> forty years ago I was born. then..
>
> or
>
> {loS maH ben jIbogh. qaSpa' wanI'vam..}
> forty years ago I was born. before that event (i.e. my birth) happened..

The question is, how would you describe an event at a time a known 
period before or after an event whose time was NOT known?

How would you describe /ten years before he was born/ if you don't know 
when he was born, but you do know the event happened ten years before that?

-- 
SuStel
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