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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2017 1:22 PM, mayqel qunenoS
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cite="mid:CAP7F2c+PYaY2fqMx5QvMG55cnhxGwMph7+gWw03+xnBMF0f1LA@mail.gmail.com">I'm
not quite sure I understand the subject.
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<div dir="auto">But if indeed I understand what we are trying to
say, then why not use:</div>
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<div dir="auto">{loS maH ben jIbogh. ngugh..}</div>
<div dir="auto">forty years ago I was born. then..</div>
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<div dir="auto">or</div>
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<div dir="auto">{loS maH ben jIbogh. qaSpa' wanI'vam..}</div>
<div dir="auto">forty years ago I was born. before that event
(i.e. my birth) happened..</div>
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<p>The question is, how would you describe an event at a time a
known period before or after an event whose time was NOT known?</p>
<p>How would you describe <i>ten years before he was born</i> if
you don't know when he was born, but you do know the event
happened ten years before that?<br>
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