Re: THEORY ago (was: Most common irregular verbs?)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 11:53 |
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On 1/17/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> BTW How do Conlangs handle 'ago'?
Klingon uses "<measurement of time> ret" for the general case of
"<measurement of time> ago", but has special words for "days ago",
"months ago", and "years ago" which merely take a number, so "three
months ago" is simply {wej wen} (three months-ago) rather than {wej
jar ret} (three month ago).
I believe that those special words can also be used without a numeral
for a generic sense, as in "[an unspecified number of] years ago, X
happened".
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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