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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by lqet on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:26AM (#37687617)
Your kitchen-sink is vanished, evaporated in the cosmic cataclysm that devoured your house, your city and country, and was the final battle of the wars brought upon us by the singularity.
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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by denton-scratch on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:03AM (#37687893)
Bravo!

But that seems to me to simply be replacing "will have" with "is", for rhetorical or expressive purposes.

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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by timmb on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:28AM (#37688654)
That’s basically what the tense is.
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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by 1MachineElf on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:18PM (#37694348)
r/BrandNewSentence
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