<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>While I enjoy the mockery ... to this non-native speaker, #ago and #fromNow are perfectly clear, and I can't think of a better substitute for either.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div><div>On 2013-05-04, at 12:09, karl ramberg <<a href="mailto:karlramberg@gmail.com">karlramberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hence have other meanings and could be ambiguous hence I suggest we do not use it.<div><br></div><div style="">Karl </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Frank Shearar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.shearar@gmail.com" target="_blank">frank.shearar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 4 May 2013 08:34, Colin Putney <<a href="mailto:colin@wiresong.com">colin@wiresong.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> "hence" is equally meaningful as "fromNow", but more old-world<br>
>> sounding. I think "ago" and "fromNow" are more compatible with each<br>
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> "Hence" is the proper the proper and perfectly cromulent antonym for "ago."<br>
> The fact that many people use circumlocutions to compensate for a deficient<br>
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</div></div>Eschew obfuscation! Espouse elucidation!<br>
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I back Colin's position with moderate strength; a compromise would be<br>
to have both :) #fromNow would delegate to #hence, of course.<br>
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