Re: THEORY: Tenses for Time Travelers; Plus, Moods and Modalities for Alternate Realities

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Tom Chappell wrote:
>> That leads to 11 tenses, since the Speaker's Present and
>> the Addressee's Present will be the same moment
>
> Not necessarilY!
>
> If this type of time travel includes the possibility of trans-temporal
> communication, then someone in 2005CE could be speaking with someone in
> 3005CE, and each of their _present_s are different times.
You wouldn't even need to have any special inventions, if your
temporal model allows things like the proverbial letter marked
"do not open until 1985", for example.



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