Fics like Probability

They have words for ‘certain,’ ‘speculation,’ ‘hope.’ They hardly ever use them. Verb tenses (indicated with sound tags, like English does with ‘ing’ or ‘ed’) mark off whether a thing didn’t happen, possibly happened, probably happened, was personally witnessed to have happened, reliably documented to have happened, logically must have happened, or is hoped to have happened. Future tense is not as elaborate, since none of that has happened. Although there are a fucking boatload of past tenses, at least it is consistent. No irregular verbs at all. This afternoon was all structural comparisons with Arcee. She says a sentence in English, then again in Cybertronix while I write it down. Then she checks the spelling. Then we would go through and gloss word by word. It rained recently. {Short term but undetermined time unit—past event} {Rain—certainty, logically must have happened} (evidence is implied) It might rain later. {Short term but undetermined time unit—future event} {Rain-possibility} {event calculated at non-zero} The rain was cold. {Short term but unspecified time unit—past event} {Rain-personally witnessed to have happened} {273.8 degrees kelvin}

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