Re: CHAT: Nippon (was CHAT: "boocoo")

> > >I just remember, 3 decades ago, seeing a very old used book entitled
> > "I just remembered seeing, 3 decades ago, a very old used book entitled
>..."
>
>Well, in my idiolect of English those two statements are
>pretty darn equivalent.
On some subconscious level, I too  must parse them to the same meaning, or
I'd not have written the 1st version of the sentence.

One a conscious level, for me they are different. In the 1st, "3 decades
ago" tries to modify "remember(ed)", but being n conflict with "just", is
suspended until my parsing hits a place where it's acceptable.

Interestingly, in my conlang Bes Dis'z, "3 decades ago" could be converted
to
"being-passed-complete 3-decades"
a modifier for the entire phrase:

(being-passed-complete 3-decades) I-remember very-old book.

or, for the less linearly written form,

.....I-remember very-old book.
being-passed-complete 3-decades

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