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Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainly
By:Dragonclaws
Date: 12/8/15 1:25 pm

: Is there a grammar tense specifically for these situations? I vaguely
: remember something in Discworld, but not how it goes...

I think the only way to comfortably do it with English is to just expand it into explanatory sentences. "One of the copies she would make in the past," say. There's a scene in The Big Bang Theory that riffs on time travel tense being awkward when applied in a way perfectly consistent with English grammar rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irfgXDrCRLs


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Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyGrimBrother One12/3/15 6:07 pm
     Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainlygamerguy200212/3/15 7:13 pm
           Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyGrizzlei12/3/15 7:33 pm
                 Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyMorhek12/4/15 3:19 am
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                             Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyMorhek12/5/15 11:22 pm
                                   Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainlydavidfuchs12/6/15 8:08 pm
                                         Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyMorhek12/7/15 1:26 am
                                               Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainlyzofinda12/7/15 9:36 pm
                                                     Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyTuckerscreator12/8/15 2:38 am
                                                           Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainlythebruce012/8/15 9:50 am
                                                                 Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyTuckerscreator12/8/15 2:42 pm
                                                           Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It Plainlydavidfuchs12/8/15 11:09 am
                                                                 Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyGrizzlei12/8/15 1:07 pm
                                                                       Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyDragonclaws12/8/15 2:59 pm
                                                                             Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyTuckerscreator12/8/15 3:21 pm
                                                                                   Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyDragonclaws12/9/15 2:30 am
                                                                                         Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyMorhek12/9/15 5:14 am
                                                                                               It is pretty awesome though! *NM*MacGyver1012/9/15 11:46 am
                                                                 Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyTuckerscreator12/8/15 2:55 pm
                                                                       Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyTuckerscreator12/8/15 3:07 pm
                                                                             And this is why First Strike is dumbdavidfuchs12/8/15 3:21 pm
                                                                                   Re: And this is why First Strike is dumbTuckerscreator12/8/15 3:28 pm
                                               Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyDragonclaws12/8/15 2:27 am
                                                     Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyMorhek12/8/15 7:46 am
                                                           Re: Canon Fodder 12-3-15: Staten It PlainlyDragonclaws12/8/15 1:25 pm
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