On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:23:39 Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> {di'i} means regularly (over the time interval specified). Is there a way
> to be more specific about the time between occurrences? e.g. some event
> happens every 23 days?
"di'i lo djedi be li reci". "di'i" is a tense marker; all tense markers
(including the spatial ones) can also serve as prepositions. You can even
connect two sentences with "idi'ibo", though that doesn't make much sense.
"reci djedi" doesn't mean "an interval 23 days long"; it means "23 intervals
each measured in days". "reci seldei" means "23 lengths of intervals measured
in days". "paroi lo djedi be li reci" means "once in 23 days", but does not
imply "at regular intervals".
> Also, is it just me, or do termsets for explicit magnitudes, especially
> single element ones for explicit distance with vague origin, seem really
> awkward?
Yes, they seem awkward. We've been using "za" followed by the interval
and "pu" or "ba" followed by the origin.
Instead of termsets, or in addition to termsets? Could you offer an example?
Pierre
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