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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by sedatk on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:38AM (#41825459)
I didn't say it doesn't act as a mood. I'm saying that it acts as a tense, and therefore I can name it as such, as how grammar forefathers named "present perfect tense" in English despite all the objections from HN about "perfect" being an aspect. :)
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by rvense on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:00AM (#41825810)
It really depends on whether you take the term tense to refer to a semantic category or just a set of constructions (surface forms).
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by marcellus23 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:07PM (#41831594)
You can call anything whatever you want, that doesn't make it correct.