<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Alan Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" target="_blank">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:06 PM, mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ghunchu'wI':<br>
>> {ret} alone, without being preceded by an actual specifier of a time<br>
>> period, is very odd.<br>
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> I know. Because of that reason in the original sentence I wrote {'op ret}.<br>
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</span>Do you understand the sentence you quoted? Do you know what "time period" means?<br>
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{'op} just means "some, an unspecified amount". It isn't a time period<br>
like {rep} or {Hogh}. {'op ret} "some ago" is not a complete idea.<br>
<span class="gmail-"></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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: <a href="http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/">http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/</a><br> </div></div></div></div>