On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:50 PM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:
{'op} just means "some, an unspecified amount". It isn't a time period like {rep} or {Hogh}. {'op ret} "some ago" is not a complete idea.
I think you might be out of the loop a bit. At the latest qep'a', MO explicitly gave examples that {'op ret} and {'op pIq} were used for "at some time in the past/future". It's the first image here: http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/
I am very much in the loop. I was there at qep'a', and I have a copy of the booklet from which those images were produced. I read that part as saying that {pa'logh} and {tuch} are the preferred terms, in contrast to {'op ret} and {'op pIq}. That is why I called the {'op ret} phrase "odd". I might be misinterpreting it, and I'm trying to reread it without prejudice. -- ghunchu'wI'