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For first time I hear it as "gossip tense". Actually it is "a tense that you did not witness yourself" or officially "learned past tense".
by darkhorn 2y ago
For first time I hear it as "gossip tense". Actually it is "a tense that you did not witness yourself" or officially "learned past tense".
- sedatk 2y agoYes, I coined the term myself (as I mention it later in the thread) because I thought it explained its function better. This was the thread that I first used it: https://x.com/esesci/status/1666152424564719639 https://x.com/esesci/status/1666152424564719639 Now that I looked for it, others apparently came up with the same name for it before me. I think, that only validates its how apt it is :)
- anticensor 2y agoIt's called past inferential in linguistic terms (all non-past inferentials in Turkish are compound tenses, but the past inferential is a base tense).