Do duration questions force you to make an assumption about the relative
length of the duration? That is, as I understand it a typical duration
question might be:
.i ti zdani do ze'a ma
roughly "how long have you been living in this house?", with the expectation
that the duration to come is moderate in length. (Not sure if I should have
another tense in there like {ca'o}, but that's another question.) And yet,
it seems like if the answer were, say, {lo cabdei} (imagining the person
just moved in today), that the corresponding sentence would be:
.i ti zdani mi ze'i lo cabdei
since living in a house for a day is a pretty short time, as time spent
living in houses goes. Is there any way around this implicit assumption,
short of asking a slightly different question like "when did you move into
this house?"?mu'omi'e .latros.
