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on 5/2/04 6:49 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote: >> Verse 2 And it was when [they] travelled from Qedem/the east, [they] >> found a plain in the land [of] Shin`ar and [they] dwelt there. >> >> Hi do ze jin pa voy from to duq bedo, juy jaw han pyaqter hu sta ti >> xaynarhaym kay dwelho cu. >> >> 2.1: Why end the present tense with "bedo", just after "duq"? > > Here I'm using "do" as a free modifier, meaning 'when.' I decided to > 'close' it with "bedo" to make it clearer, which, now that I think of it, is > a departure for the usual usage of "be." But I think it works. Boy, I couldn't have gotten that more wrong if I tried. "Do" isn't supposed to work that way. When it means 'when', it's followed by a "ke" phrase. It should have read: Hi doke [or do ke] ze jin pa voy from to duq [optional "beke" here], juy jaw han pyaqter hu sta ti xinarhaym kay dwelho cu. Go zanen. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm