OK, who has the time machine?

[joebill]

Didn't used to believe in them, but recent evidence has made me question that disbelief.


A certain phrase has been common throughout the land longer than I have been alive which is a description of a false accusation. The origin of the phrase seems to be some 600 years in the past and have no root in any tongue from which we derive modern English, so one must assume that news of our greatest hoax traveled backwards in time through artificial means so as to establish the phrase "Trumped up charges"....before there ever was a Trump or any charges.


I want that machine. With pre-emptive power over language, no telling what might be accomplished, although it did not seem to help us much this time...…    ….Joe

[blackfeather]

The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place. One rationalization of this problem states that time travel was, by its very nature, discovered simultaneously at all periods of history,

Note: The term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

The major problem [with time travel] is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

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The power you need is over grammer, not so much the words, if your going to say it you have to say it right.

[Ozarks Tom]

Yesterday I said to myself: "Self, I wonder what tomorrow will be like?" To my great disappointment it was very much like yesterday. Oh well, neither was all that bad.