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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/28/2016 2:39 PM, Alan Anderson
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<div dir="auto">As SuStel said, {Soch DIS vorgh} is a time
stamp. As was said earlier in this thread, time stamps don't
require the {qaStaHvIS}. So, in the {Soch DIS vorgh jIQuch},
where is the problem ?</div>
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<div>I haven't seen a message where he said that {Soch DIS vorgh}
is a time stamp. On the contrary, I have seen him pointing out
that counting days or years makes them *not* a time stamp.</div>
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<p>I said <b>DIS vorgh </b>is a time stamp. You're not counting
it; you're labeling it. <b>cha' DIS vorgh</b> would be counting
years. <b>DISvam jatlhchoH puq. DIS vorgh yItchoH puq. cha' ben
boghpu' puq.</b> I don't feel comfortable saying <b>*cha' DIS
vorgh boghpu' puq</b> because it sounds like "the previous two
years" rather than "two years previously"; it sounds like I'm
counting years instead of choosing a moment in time. If there were
such a thing as a <b>*cha'DIS</b><i> biyear, </i>then it might
make sense, but there is no such thing. If there were such a thing
as a <b>*SochDIS</b><i> seven-year,</i> then I would accept <b>*SochDIS
vorgh</b> as referring to the <i>previous seven-year,</i> but
there is no such thing as a seven-year. If you said <b>Soch DIS
vorgh poH jIQuch</b> I would accept it, because here you're
LABELING your time span as the <i>period of time of the previous
seven years.</i> It would parallel <b>vatlh DIS poH vorgh
jIboghpu'</b><i> I was born in the previous century.</i> It's
telling me WHEN something happened, not HOW LONG something took.<br>
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<p>Many time stamps can be time spans as well, BUT NOT AT THE SAME
TIME (no pun intended). <b>DISvam</b> <i>this year</i> can LABEL
a year in which something happens, OR it can simply be acted on as
a thing in and of itself, as a time span. This is where you're
getting confused: determining which time spans can act as time
stamps. A time stamp tells me WHEN something happens; a time span
does not all by itself.</p>
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