• Melllvar
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    489 months ago

    This is hardly the time to be conjugating temporal verbs in the past-impossible-never tense!

    • JonC
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      59 months ago

      Where’s Dan Streetmentioner when you need him?

      • Flying SquidM
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        49 months ago

        “Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.”

        (Yes, I know that’s from a different book in the series.)

        • @Zachariah
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          9 months ago

          Was ist, ist

          Was nicht ist, ist möglich

          Nur was nicht ist, ist möglich

    • gregorum
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      9 months ago

      I would never! unless you were already having been going to do that! and, in latin, there’s a tense for that: future imperfect (for referring to things that might have been)!