In my thinking, tenses is a bit like compression where you can condense temporal relationships into a single word. In Thai, we are more explicit and add more wo

In my thinking, tenses is a bit like compression where you can condense temporal relationships into a single word. In Thai, we are more explicit and add more words. Though Thai words tends to be shorter (since we have tones to disambiguate sounds), adding words are not that expensive. I’m not a linguist, so this is just a hypothesis. Also, don’t take it the wrong way - the usage of superfluous is strictly logical. Like saying computer languages are superfluous (who ever needs anything other than an infinitely long tape?).