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Attempt at formulating verb tenses when time travel is involved?

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00:00 Attempt At Formulating Verb Tenses When Time Travel Is Involved?
00:55 Accepted Answer Score 13
01:18 Answer 2 Score 5
01:54 Answer 3 Score 3
02:26 Answer 4 Score 2
03:31 Answer 5 Score 1
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 13


A quick Google search turns up a couple of interesting attempts:

But of course I think the best way to address this is simply to wait. Once time travel is invented, people will fully sort it out and grow accustomed to it within a hundred years or so.




ANSWER 2

Score 5


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Subjective Present: He will have spoken

Subjective Past: He has spoken, but don't give your him guff if that instance of him doesn't remember saying it

Objective Past Perfect Progressive: He will have had been speaking- deal with it.

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ANSWER 3

Score 3


Pasts

  • I had had An event occurring prior to the jump.
  • I had An event occurring at the moment of the jump.
  • I had will have An event occurring after the jump, before now.

Futures

  • I will have had An event occurring prior to the jump, after now.
  • I will have An event occurring at the moment of the jump.
  • I will will have An event occurring after the jump.

Full documentation: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/Time+travel+conjugation




ANSWER 4

Score 2


Seems most cases can be addressed by going in the following order: Speaker's time line, listeners time line, any absolute time reference.

  1. Past past past (ppp): I already did that yesterday
  2. ppf: I already did that tomorrow
  3. pfp: I already will do that yesterday
  4. fpp: I expect to have already done that yesterday
  5. pff: I already will have done that tomorrow
  6. fpf: I expect to have already done that tomorrow
  7. ffp: I expect I will do that yesterday
  8. fff: I expect I will do that tomorrow

this assumes both are speaking from the same timeline. For asynchronous communication, it can be prefaced with an indicator: As of yesterday, I already will have done that tomorrow. A note from a future speaker indicates that in the listeners' future, the speaker's past will have done an action in the absolute future.