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@Solomon:

@solomon: 
Solomon:> I, too, am a native speaker of English, and to me "to time 
indefinite" and  "indefinitely" signal the same thing. 
 Unless you have counted the number of years that make up "forever," it is  
indeed an "indefinite" or "indefinitely-lasting" time. Otherwise, how long is 
 "forever"? 
Response: Well when I first started discussing with Dr.Furuli, I was not 
familiar with the NWT use of `WLM.  I own a NWT but never really flipped 
through it except for verses dealing with Christ.  Anyway, when I came to "to 
time indefinite."  I had to stop and think about what this meant, it was not 
very clear, at first I thought the NWT translators made this expression up.  
Even though forever is an indefinite/unknown amount of time, the reverse is 
not true.  An indefinite amount of time does not have to mean 'forever.'  It 
can be three days, a week, a month etc.
 
Solomon:> But as I said before, to each his own. "Time indefinite" works for 
me, as 
> well as a fair number of other native speakers of English I know. 
Response: Sure, you are familiar with the NWT, I had no idea what it meant 
when I first looked at it.  It took me awhile and I am a native speaker as 
well.  
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On 15/11/2005 13:56, Awohili AT aol.com wrote:

> 
>I, too, am a native speaker of English, and to me "to time indefinite" and  
>"indefinitely" signal the same thing.
> 
>  
>
I just did a Google search on "to time indefinite". There are only 506 
hits, indicating that this phrase is not a common one. 18 out of the 
first 20 hits appear to be quotations from NWT or discussions of 
Jehovah's Witnesses' teaching. I strongly suspect that this phrase is 
meaningless except to those who have been taught its meaning by 
Jehovah's Witnesses. It is certainly meaningless to me.

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