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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by anticensor on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:11AM (#41825324)
Turkish native speaker here. -miş is indeed a tense (can be used as a base tense in the indicative past, or as a compound tense to add nonevidentiality in any other verb form).
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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by mcnamaratw on Sunday October 13, 2024 @09:26AM (#41827847)
It’s cool that you’re a native speaker, but the typical HN commenter is at a much higher level of proficiency than that.

Irony notice. This comment contains irony.

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by tarkin2 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:09AM (#41828160)
You should have used the ironic mood if you'd wanted us to understand the irony
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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by thwg on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:09AM (#41828671)
IMHO, it would be more correct-miş, in terms of linguistics at least, to call it an “aspect” than a “tense”.
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