How many tenses would there be if time-travel was invented?
How do you think, would learning english become impossible if anyone could time-travel?
Example: You go back in time and want to talk there about what have you done in the future before you jumped back in time.
Each example like this would need a separate tense.
Question originated from the book "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy".
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LOL!!! You'd have to say the date of each time travel to be able to be clear? ha!
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The Future Temporal Definite. Used when the future is fixed, as it is your personal past, yet is the relative future because of your time traveling endeavors.
Example: I will have been eating cake.
The Future Present Past personal Specified. When the traveller uses the present and past tense but the tense is made future by the addition of a future date.
Example: Im starving! I haven't eaten since Tomorrow.
There are lots of others Im sure, such as tenses that would describe actions happening in the speakers past but the listeners future and vice versa. Also there would be a few tenses describing thing you were doing in the future but were interrupted by something that you needed to attend to in the past. Or things that you did in the past which affected the future, so in fact never happened, except in your timeline. Its pretty complicated. Then there's the issue of paradoxes.......
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Dr Who would know this answer for sure.
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