Re: THEORY: Tenses (was: Re: THEORY: ... Auxiliaries...)

Hi!

Paul writes:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:46:33 -0400, Henrik Theiling
> <theiling@...>  wrote:
>
> >     überübermorgen
>
> If you're going to allow those kinds of shenannigans, you might as
> well  say English has a denumerably infinite number of
> tenses. "Seventeen  minutes after 3pm, twelve Thursdays ago", for
> instance ... ;-)
Ooops, no. :-)  It wasn't my intension to call this 'tense', just to
show which funny words exist.  Mandarin usually counts as a language
without grammatical tense, I think.  (But it has grammatical aspect.)

**Henrik