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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/25/2019 11:24 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">Interesting information indeed. So lets approach
this differently.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Suppose I write {jaj veb, vIghro' tIQ
wIHaH'eghmoH}, for "next day we bathe the ancient cat".</div>
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<div dir="auto">The first question is "is this ungrammatical ?",
and the second question is "what is the {jaj veb} if not a
timestamp ?".</div>
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<div dir="auto">I don't think its ungrammatical, and
seemingly/apparently {jaj veb} functions as a timestamp.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The only problem is, we don't know which day this
{jaj veb} refers to.</div>
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<p>It is a time stamp, and it's perfectly grammatical; it's just
doesn't refer to a specific next day.</p>
<p>When you say <b>jaj veb</b> in Klingon or <i>the next day</i>
in English, you're speaking deictically: the meaning of your
expression is based on some already-established context. In this
case, it might be directions for honoring a cat, in which case the
context is that you have already begun the honoring process, and
the next step takes place on the next day. You haven't specified
which day on a timeline this is happening; it's not "March 26" or
anything; it's just the day after the day you were already talking
about.<br>
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