On 2/8/2019 9:47 AM, De'vID wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:30, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
As for the original question, I agree with those who say that the tlhoS in tlhoS wa' ben qaSpu' wanI' incorrectly tries to apply itself to the noun phrase wa' ben. I like mayqel's solution of wa' ben HochHom qaSpu' wanI': simple and accurate, though I feel a little uncomfortable about having "most of" a particular moment in time. I wonder if one could say wa' HochHom almost one as in wa' HochHom ben qaSpu' wanI'. I wouldn't feel comfortable using that either, but it does seem to follow all the rules.

Imprecise time expressions are always a challenge.


What about {wa' ben tugh [qaSpu' wanI']} "one year ago it will have happened soon"? Or is the combination of {wa' ben} with {tugh} weird? 

I think it's weird. We've had the discussion of using these relative time expressions before, though I don't think we have an official answer. Can you make the tugh apply to a specified point in time instead of the current time? Dunno.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name