Uri:

Thanks for the humor.

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Uri Hurwitz <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>           Due to   modern translation equipment
> the following arrived from XLQYAHW, who lived in the 8th
> century BCE in the  vicinity of YRW$LYIM:
>
> …
>      Why are all these wise people say that we cannot distinguish between
> past, present, or future?"
>

Of course they could distinguish between past, present and future. They
just didn’t do so through verbal conjugations. In that they join modern
Chinese who also don’t have verbal conjugations, rather use context to
indicate tense.

By the way, since when are verbal conjugations the only way to indicate
past, present and future references?

>
>                 Hopefully someone will reply to XLQIYHW.
>
>                 Uri Hurwitz
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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