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2 days agoCan you give more examples? I’m really curious now
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I often use tone tags, so in their absence, try to interpret everything I say as literally as reasonable.
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I’m not sure how common this is, and I probably need to delve into the literature a bit, but we typically learn that our language has a simple 3-“tense” system (past/present/future). Aside from some obvious exceptions such as a periphrastic past habitual, periphrastic conditional (contrafactual) form, two imperatives and some compounds using the passive participle, I’ve noticed myself using the past and future purely aspectually, such as with present time descriptors.
We also have historical present (but it’s not good literary style) and whatever the future equivalent it that is named.