"Frazz", Sept. 4, 2013:
"Not… until just now" in the second panel here poses the same type of tense / aspect challenge to English –> Mandarin translators as "It wasn't" in the "Zits" cartoon discussed in "'It wasn't' in English and Chinese".
But this one is a little bit more complicated because the question is in present tense, whereas the answer is in an implied past tense: "Not"
[Thanks to John Rohsenow]
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