tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984024640984548407.post2167561453184650296..comments2023-10-07T00:15:24.471-07:00Comments on Platonic Psychology: Things I Didn't Know: Tenses in Latin (Reasoning)Sulpicia (III)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06035502513873251894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984024640984548407.post-51694693813420858362014-07-21T19:07:52.257-07:002014-07-21T19:07:52.257-07:00Interesting about the lack of the present perfect ...Interesting about the lack of the present perfect in Latin! It's one of the big "to teach" items for teaching English as a foreign language. I found the best way to explain it is to say that it includes the idea of something that was completed in the past but is still relevant now -- it could be captured by the idea of "up to now" and is in some sense summative. It's interesting to note that "iamdudum" and such words are used to fill out this idea, because this is exactly how one might express that sort of idea in Latin! It just goes to show that to understand any tense, you really need to know what adverbs may and may not be used with it. Interesting post!firezdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473050286104950159noreply@blogger.com