<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">tugh malop. qatlh? wa’ ben qaS wanI’ le’.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:10 AM, Alan Anderson <<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Feb 8, 2019, at 11:23 PM, Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And we are going to say “A year ago” or “11 months ago”. We are not going to say, “Almost a year ago”.</span></font></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I want to let people know that the one-year anniversary of an event worthy of celebration is looming, I don’t see why I wouldn’t tell them that it happened almost a year ago. I might phrase it in a different way because of the constraints of language, but there’s nothing in either my real-life culture or the fictional Star Trek Klingons’ culture that constrains me from saying it at all.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- ghunchu'wI'</span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>