Re: More on the Hermetic Language

John Cowan wrote:
> Punctuals in general can take a long period of time, provided the
> speaker sees them as a single event without parts.  In English, this is
> often done with a nominalization:  "Pheidippides' run from Marathon to
> Athens", e.g.; it took hours, but here is treated as a unanalyzable
> point event.  Similarly in "William Blake lived from 1757 to 1827."
Uatakassi would use non-punctual there, at least for the second.  :-)
Punctual is instantaneous or very brief in Uatakassi.  I suppose if one
were to write from the perspective of an immortal being, punctual could
be used for "William Blake lived from 1757 to 1827".  "Pheidippides ran
from Marathon to Athens" I'm not sure if it would be non-punctual or
punctual.

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