Re: [engelang] Xorban experimental tense markers - engelang messages

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't think that we know what tense markers are ultimately going to look like, which ones we'll have, or how they'll fit in with worlds and situations, but for experimental purposes I would like to designate "hik-" for tense markers and create seven to start with. All of these are relative to "now" meaning "at the time that this sentence (was/started) being uttered/written".

hika: currently, now, "it is now the case that F"

hiki: in the past, before now, "it was the case that F"

hiku: in the future, after now, "it will be the case that F"

hiki'e: in the near past, "F just happened"

hiki'o: in the far past, "F happened a while back"

hiku'e: in the near future, "F is about to happen"

hiku'o: in the far future, "F will happen eventually"

Thoughts? Sound good for now?

At the very least, split out the actual tense from the quantitative part, so they are explicit and optional. It looks like you started out that way, then already collapsed them back into single words.

stevo

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