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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:12:54 PST
From: "michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>
Subject: tense tenseness
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I have been reading with interest the debate on "stacking" 
complex tense cmavo. I like journeying-imaginarily as much 
as anyone, but i wonder if it is even necessary to do this 
at all. (I'm trying to write using only "aspects" as much 
as possible, as a stylistic exercize--BTW, when English 
stacks them ["have had", "was going to" & the like], that's 
usually what we're trying to express, not the future of a 
past or such...) Why not put some of this information 
somewhere else--a BAU, or on one of the gismu? Is there 
anything you want to SAY with the conventions suggested 
either by Jorge or Lojbab? Is the thought in SwiftRain's 
poem so very hard to express?