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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by hrnnnnnn on Friday June 07, 2024 @01:05AM (#40605503)
Future perfect and future perfect continuous, respectively, if you're interested in the names.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by tsimionescu on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:35AM (#40605889)
They're both future perfect I believe, of the verbs "to have" and "to be". Future perfect continuous is "will have been filming", this was "will have been fine".
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by hrnnnnnn on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:53AM (#40607735)
What's the difference between those two?
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by tsimionescu on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:17PM (#40613098)
"Will have been filming" is the future perfect continuous form of the verb "to film", while "will have been blue" is the future perfect form of the verb "to be", with "blue" as a subject complement.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by hrnnnnnn on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:42PM (#40740648)
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by cubefox on Friday June 07, 2024 @09:10AM (#40608401)
To give them names destroys the magic a little
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