erights@... (Mark Miller) on Sunday, May 18, 2008 wrote:
>On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Ka-Ping Yee <
e-lang@...> wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Baldur Johannsson wrote:
>>> if there is no insistence on English I propose the variable name
>>> suffix "_loks". Which is an translation of "eventual" to Icelandic.
>>
>> There is a one-character, one-syllable particle in Chinese that can
>> be attached to any verb to indicate an ongoing/continuing/in-progress
>> activity, but it might be a bit hard to type... :)
>
>Whoa, timely! Yup, this fails the ascii-only restriction.
We can always use the Pinyin spelling, which is ASCII. I know of
the Chinese particle "le" which means completed action. (For those
who are keeping score, Chinese doesn't consider the ideas of past,
present, future as fundamental as whether the action is completed.
I can express the concepts of "will have finished next week", "have
presently finished", and "already finished it last week" using the
same sentence.) I don't know the particle Ka-Ping Yee references
which indicates continuing activity(, and thought it was just the
absence of "le".)
Cheers - Bill
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