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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by mkl on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:20AM (#41825887)
They're orders to continue a present activity into the future.
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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by amoss on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:47AM (#41826276)
Is the continuation not an activity in the present time, or that starts in the present time? Characterizing this as being in the futures seems to be an incorrect boundary case.
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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by mkl on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:04AM (#41826341)
They're definitely orders about the future. "Keep at it" has the present as context, "hold the line" is a bit ambiguous, "don't let it happen again" has the past as context, but they're all talking about the future.
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