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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] to qaStaHvIS or not to qaStaHvIS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Wed Dec 28 15:22:11 2016

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From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:21:38 -0500
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On 12/28/2016 3:16 PM, SuStel wrote:
> It's telling me WHEN something happened, not HOW LONG something took.

Or to put it another way: a time expression is just a phrase of some 
kind. Whether it's a time stamp or a time span or both or neither is all 
in how you use it; it's not inherent to the expression. There's no list 
of acceptable time stamps and acceptable time spans.

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SuStel
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