Quoting jasef harb <[log in to unmask]>:

> Stanley Mulaik <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >Per curiositate como on dice certe phrases como?
> >Once upon a time[A]
> >C'era una volta[I]
> >Tinha uma vez[P]
> >
>
> Bon question. Ben que il ha le parola latin 'olim'
> usate per Gode (qui usava solmente particulas latin)
> isto non es suggestive a personas moderne.
>
> On poterea usar del latin interum aut Rusum - Russus nonne ?
>
> Io ha
> pensate que alque como
>
> "Il habeva un vice ...."
>
> es functional.

E iste concorda con le francese "Il y avait une fois...", e con le expressions
anglese "There was once..." and "There once was..." [p.e., "There once was a
troll who lived under the bridge between Interlingua and the other
languages..."], le qual non es telemente usate que le classic "Once upon a
time..." mas es, nonobstante, usate de tempore in tempore con le mesme
signification.

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