Re: THEORY: Tenses for Time Travelers; Plus, Moods and Modalities for Alternate Realities
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 18, 2005, 23:22 |
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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.
-Stephen (Steg)
"how do you make a /p/ without asphyxiating it?"
[read: '...without *aspirating* it']
~ my friend C
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