Re: Locating a Sentence's Action in Time
Sorik of Vulcan 
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:28:22 PDT


>Contextually. Tense is fluid and imprecise, which is largely why
>Concurrence exists. Vulcan is more precise than English, since it has
>more tenses. But from one sentence to the next, present may mean
>"right now," or "today," or "this year." Past and Future, potentially
>extending ad infinitum in their respective directions, are even less
>exact.
>
>--
>from Saul Epstein

Please don't hold my lack of precise terminology (and spelling) against 
me, but perhaps we could simply use parts of speech that mean "before 
today", "before this year", "before I was born", and others like "after 
I die...", "long after I die...".  There would also have to be some 
(whatever they're called) that say "during this minute, hour, day, year, 
century, etc...".  We could extend this idea to say "long before today", 
"long after today" or whatever.

Sorry, this message probably seems less than intellegant, but I'm really 
tired, but thought I should make this point, whatever it is.

Sorik
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