Posted: Oct 03, 2014 9:06 pm
tuco wrote:hackenslash wrote:I'm far more interested in verb tenses appropriate for time travellers myself. Not seeing the value of marmalising the language to deal with gender distinctions.
Same here. I am interested in reducing tenses in English to 3: past - present - future, in other words moving towards more logical language. I was even told that Mandarin for example does not have tenses at all.
English doesn't even really have a future tense. It's all helping verbs.