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Re: Suggestions?

> >la kris cusku di'e
> >> 1) How do you say "seven years ago"?
>
> Xorxes:
> >I like {puza lei ze nanca}.
>
> Why?  I thought the sumti tagged by a tense was *always* the starting point
> for the journey.

Not always.

For the ZEhAs, it is the interval.

For the ZAhOs, don't even ask, it's my pet peeve.

> Shouldn't "puza lei ze nanca" mean "a medium period of
> time before the seven years"?

You may be right. I thought it made sense that the complement of ZA should
be the length of the offset, but now I'm not sure.

> Similarly, would "va lei ze mitre" mean "seven meters away" or "a medium
> distance away from the mass of seven one-meter-long-things"?

The first one seems much more useful, but I don't know.

Jorge