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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by timmb on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:31AM (#37688684)
I think it should be “you are already failed”.

It seems to work better on verbs that have a different form for “I failed” and “I have failed” which “fail” does not.

Try “you are already fallen at the first hurdle”.

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Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense by denton-scratch on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:17AM (#37689941)
I think these are not examples; each of your examples is of a failure that (implicitly) has already occurred, but the protagonist hasn't realised it yet.
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