<p dir="ltr">ok, thank you for explaining this.</p>
<p dir="ltr">it is not that I have anything against the {qaStaHvIS}; it is rather the fact, that many times during writing I find myself writing the {qaStaHvIS} again and again.</p>
<p dir="ltr">i wish there was an alternate expression, in order to be able to avoid repeating the same phrase time and again.</p>
<p dir="ltr">qunnoH<br>
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Nov 2016 2:17 pm, "André Müller" <<a href="mailto:esperantist@gmail.com">esperantist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>A "time stamp" only marks a point in time, you can use words meaning "today", "on Monday", "in 2 years", etc. But in {DIS law'} you are not talking about a reference point in time, but about a long duration during which you did something. So {qaStaHvIS ...} is the correct option.<br><br></div>Now you might argue that "in 2 years" and "(during) many years" both refer to quite broad time spans and not necessarily to *points* in time, but for "in 2 years" there is no duration specified, while "many years" explicitly refers to a duration.<br><br></div>{ben law'} 'many years ago' would stand alone without a {qaStaHvIS} before it.<br><br></div>- André<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-08 11:51 GMT+01:00 mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Assume I want to write: "many years I've been tickling the cat".<br>
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If I stop and think, what most people here are expecting to see, I<br>
then I would write:<br>
<br>
{qaStaHvIS DIS law' vIghro' vIqotlh}.<br>
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However, I really can't see the reason why I cannot write:<br>
<br>
{DIS law', vIghro' vIqotlh}.<br>
<br>
Is this wrong ? And if it is, could someone be so kind as to explain why ?<br>
<br>
qunnoH jan puqloD<br>
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