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One imagines I’m rich, thus I buy the ancient cat One imagines that I’m rich — at the time that one imagines that I’m rich, I’m going to buy the ancient cat Ditto for “subsequently”. One imagines I’m rich and after they have imagined that I’m rich, here in the real world, I buy the ancient cat, even though I’m not rich.
There is something with your analysis, which contradicts my understanding of the {... net jalchugh, vaj ...} construction. The way I understood it prior to this thread, was that the {vaj} refers not to the act of imagining (i.e. not to the net jalchugh), but to the "what" I imagined (i.e. the sentence that precedes the net jalchugh). The way I understand the {jImIp net jalchugh, vaj vIghro' tIQ vIje'}, is not "I would buy the ancient cat if one imagined I were rich", but "I would buy the ancient cat if I were rich". The prerequisite for me buying the ancient cat, isn't that someone needs to have first imagined it; it's the fact that I need to be rich. If my understanding is correct, then I can't understand how at the sentence {jImIp net jalchugh, ghIq vIghro' tIQ vIje'}, you write that "One imagines I’m rich and after they have imagined that I’m rich, here in the real world, I buy the ancient cat, even though I’m not rich". According to your analysis, the {ghIq} acts to the {net jalchugh}; however, according to my understanding, the {ghIq} and of course the {vaj} act not on the {net jalchugh} but to the sentence that precedes it. I'm not saying that I'm right. I'm writing this to demonstrate my confusion on the matter.. And if someone could clarify this, it would be great. ~ m. qunen'oS Dun *ainur*pu', 'ej Dunqu' melkor