[tlhIngan Hol] ordering and scope of adverbials relative to timestamps

Will Martin willmartin2 at mac.com
Sat Feb 9 04:47:47 PST 2019


tugh malop. qatlh? wa’ ben qaS wanI’ le’.

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> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:10 AM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 11:23 PM, Will Martin <willmartin2 at mac.com> wrote:
>> And we are going to say “A year ago” or “11 months ago”. We are not going to say, “Almost a year ago”.
> 
> If I want to let people know that the one-year anniversary of an event worthy of celebration is looming, I don’t see why I wouldn’t tell them that it happened almost a year ago. I might phrase it in a different way because of the constraints of language, but there’s nothing in either my real-life culture or the fictional Star Trek Klingons’ culture that constrains me from saying it at all.
> 
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