SuStel:

You're using "fourth year," but to me "fourth year" is counting years as they occur, not counting them backwards.

I see your point. Unfortunately, I can't think of an alternate way of saying it. Unless we wrote: {tagh noH, 'ej ghIq -qaSDI' loS DIS- bogh} the war begun, and then -as soon as four years had happened- he was born What is your opinion on this approach ? ~ nI'ghma On Nov 29, 2017 22:13, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote: On 11/29/2017 3:08 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:

SuStel

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What is the fourth year which preceded his life?

hmm.. I see what you mean. What would you think of the following then ?

{qaStaHvIS yInDaj bI'reS nungbogh DIS loSDIch'e', tagh noH}

while the fourth year which preceded the beginning of his life was happening, the war started

You're using "fourth year," but to me "fourth year" is counting years as they occur, not counting them backwards. Anyway, the very fact that you have to resort to locutions like this shows has ill-equipped the language is at this sort of thing. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org