On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2011 01:13:52 Luke Bergen wrote:
> would you interpret {to'e tcepru} as {cabna} or {tcebalvi}?
>
> It sounds right that the opposite of "ancient past" is "very modern". But
> it also seems like the present is a mid-point between the ancient past and
> the distant future. So both {cabna} and {tcebalvi} seem like intuitively
> good interpretations.
I think {to'e tcepru} is equivalent to {tcebalvi}.
What are good words for "modern"? Sometimes {cabna} isn't quite right. For
instance, Modern English has been spoken since around 1550, but no one living
in Shakespeare's day could now be called {cabna}.
Pierre
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