Re: An Ill Bethisad thought

En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

> >
> >I've been thinking of adding it to Maggel. Now I need to find a way
> to
> >explain the presence of such an item...
>
>     First thought upon reading this that came into my mind here is a
> possibility for an one-word alternative to using "once upon a time..."
>
In the *...* convention, that would be *then* :))) . Although "once upon a
time" gives to me the idea that it happened *here*, but in another time,
probably a far past, where magic and fantasy ruled the world. Maybe it's due to
the French equivalent, which uses "to be" in the imperfect tense: "il était une
fois". Still, if we have *here* and *there*, why not *now* and *then*? :))

Interestingly it gives a nice way to justify the presence of such pronouns, if
the stories of the people who speak Maggel all tend to happen in a time and
place that is "out of their world", litterally... Mmm... food for thoughts...

Christophe.

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