Re: This day

On 3/23/07, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:

> Another thing that this thread reminds me of is a phrase that seems a
> little odd to me, seen in writing: "now ___, now ___" (e.g. "now this
> way, now that", meaning "at one point, this way; at another, that",
> or perhaps "sometimes this way; sometimes that"). The "now"s actually
> refer to two different times, and neither time is actually the
> present time!
gjâ-zym-byn expresses this kind
of disjunctive contrast with {vĭj
pŏ ~~~ vĭj ʝŏ i ~~~}: "time
that at ... time other at ...."
Or perhaps {nu pŏ ~~~ nu ʝŏ i ~~~}
(vĭj = extended time period, nu =
moment, very short time), or with
another time-word such as {ĉĕθâ}
"objective day", {gĕdĭm} "subjective
day", {hyr} "hour", {ĥwĭl} "era of
history", {tâŋ} "era of one's life",
or whatever.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm