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[Dsarker]

Think of it like a film, quiaff? Your present tense is your lead role running and gunning. Your future is when he's back at headquarters, planning the next raid. Past tense is when he's remembering his last raid. Pluperfect is when he's thinking about the start of the war. Future perfect is when he's thinking about how it's going to end.

[Zaerosz]

...okay, so I kinda failed English last year. And the year before. So forgive me for my ignorance, but is pluperfect actually a real word or did you just pull that out of your ass?

[Dsarker]

It's a real word. Means 'more than perfect', or to put it in the vernacular, 'before the perfect tense'. You also have an imperfect tense, but not used as much in English. That's the one in which you say an action has been done and continues to be done (ie 'The man drank') but not necessarily has (as opposed to perfect, in which the action has been completed (The man used to drink) and pluperfect, where the action had been completed and has ceased (The man had used to drink))

[Zaerosz]

I see. This could prove useful. Thank you very much.

[Dsarker]

No problem.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Hrm. Me fail English? That's unpossible!

First time I hear the "pluperfect" word as well. Oh well, learn something new every day...

[Dsarker]

You might know of it as past perfect.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Ah. That word I used to know.

(or wait, is that the correct tense? "Knew" would be past, "used to know" past perfect? Or not? Argh, damn you, English language! I have enough trouble focusing on things I write without worrying about intricacies of the ten point half billion tenses.)

[Dsarker]

Used to know is past perfect.

[Sean Mirrsen]

And sure, now I'm thinking of more weird tenses. Like I don't have anything else to do. ("will have used to know"? Referring to a future state in which an event has been completed at some point in the past? Does that even make sense?)

Let's switch back to ponies.

How long does it usually take EqD to review a fic? Something's taking them too long. Not that it's really bad for us, since it gives us more time to get the second part streamlined, but...
Also, is Impending still impending? He should post what he has to the google doc so that we can at least see if it's all going in the right direction.

[Zaerosz]

If this is about that fic, I'd almost suspect that they just outright rejected it, were it not for the fact that this is the internet.

[Sean Mirrsen]

They'd inform Dsarker if they rejected it, but other than the slightly flimsy (in my opinion) overall quality and some sort of heavy foreshadowing to something sinister happening, there is little reason for them to reject the part we submitted outright. There's nothing bad in that fic, we don't want to scare our readers away.

[Dsarker]

And sure, now I'm thinking of more weird tenses. Like I don't have anything else to do. ("will have used to know"? Referring to a future state in which an event has been completed at some point in the past? Does that even make sense?)

Do you mean a Future Perfect or a Future Pluperfect?

[Sean Mirrsen]

And sure, now I'm thinking of more weird tenses. Like I don't have anything else to do. ("will have used to know"? Referring to a future state in which an event has been completed at some point in the past? Does that even make sense?)

Do you mean a Future Perfect or a Future Pluperfect?

I mean a... *brings up the Wiki*... huh. Apparently, a "Posterior tense". Figures. Can't go ten feet on the internet without bumping into some kind of posterior.

[Dsarker]

I will have done it. - Future Perfect


I will do it. - Future