Re: Novel ConGrammar

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:


> >  indefinate future (farther than one can think)
> >  definate future (fore-sight & planning)
>
> I fail to see how the future can ever be definite. Foresight & planning
> can do much to increase the likelihood of a situation - but it can never
> be definite.
Sounds like the tense for oracular utterances. Or for performatives relating to
the future ("hereby I declare that you will be Mayor of Junkville from the 23rd
of October!").

                                                     Andreas

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