<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">De'vID:</div><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif;display:inline !important">What's the difference between "tomorrow I do something", "as soon as tomorrow happens I do something", and "while tomorrow happens I do something"? Replace "tomorrow" with "[in] the future".</span><br></div></blockquote><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><span style="display: inline !important;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">There's a huge practical difference between "tomorrow" and "the future as a whole".</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">First of all, we don't know how Klingons define "the future". Does it start immediately, or does "the present" continue for a while and only after that the future begins? Can there be multiple different futures? Is it relative/deitic? Can I talk about the near future and the far future? Which of these possible interpretations does <b>tuch</b> by itself mean without further context? It's possible that even Klingons don't know (if the concept is fuzzy enough).</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="arial">Tomorrow is a well defined time-span, so the different ways to use it in sentences have a clear meaning. Future is not well defined (at least for us). I think Dana'an's questions are important, but impossible to answer with our current knowledge.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="arial"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="arial">Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio</font></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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On Monday, June 6th, 2022 at 23.36, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 12:33, D qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">De'vID:<div dir="auto">> other contexts may call for </div><div dir="auto">> {qaStaHvIS tuch} or {tuch} as a time stamp</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Although I followed the relevant discussion at Discord, I still don't understand when {tuch} on its' own should be used as a timestamp, instead of {qaSDI' tuch} and {qaStaHvIS tuch}.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>In general, when would you use a time element, {qaSDI'}, or {qaStaHvIS}? {tuch} is not special, in that regard.</div><div><br></div><div>What's the difference between "tomorrow I do something", "as soon as tomorrow happens I do something", and "while tomorrow happens I do something"? Replace "tomorrow" with "[in] the future".</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr">De'vID</div></div>
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