<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">SuStel:</span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> You're using "fourth year," but to me "fourth year" is counting </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> years as they occur, not counting them backwards.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I see your point. Unfortunately, I can't think of an alternate way of saying it.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">Unless we wrote:</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">{tagh noH, 'ej ghIq -qaSDI' loS DIS- bogh}</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">the war begun, and then -as soon as four years had happened- he was born</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">What is your opinion on this approach ?</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">~ nI'ghma</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2017 22:13, "SuStel" <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">On 11/29/2017 3:08 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:<br>
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SuStel<br>
> What is the fourth year which preceded his<br>
> life?<br>
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hmm.. I see what you mean. What would you think of the following then ?<br>
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{qaStaHvIS yInDaj bI'reS nungbogh DIS loSDIch'e', tagh noH}<br>
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while the fourth year which preceded the beginning of his life was happening, the war started<br>
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You're using "fourth year," but to me "fourth year" is counting years as they occur, not counting them backwards.<br>
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Anyway, the very fact that you have to resort to locutions like this shows has ill-equipped the language is at this sort of thing.<div class="elided-text"><br>
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SuStel<br>
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