… exists in german; similar to french in this way; dissimilar to english in this way. S is a tense, which indicates doubt or emotion is involved in what is being described. It is hypothesized by this author that S was an invention of european royalty; why else would a layman need to know such a complicated and unnecessary tense?
Perhaps subjunctive should be reused for a more useful purpose. An example could be the “tenseless-tense.” Especially with wide-spread-availability of information, it is hard to know exactly when something was published or if it has ever been updated. T-t may be used to, for example, to state at one point angela merkel was german-chancellor; therefore, there would be no need to update this text because is versus was is not expressed within the tense.
The subjective case has disappeared from the english lexicon; at what point and for what reason is unknown.
Perhaps subjunctive should be reused for a more useful purpose. An example could be the “tenseless-tense.” Especially with wide-spread-availability of information, it is hard to know exactly when something was published or if it has ever been updated. T-t may be used to, for example, to state at one point angela merkel was german-chancellor; therefore, there would be no need to update this text because is versus was is not expressed within the tense.
The subjective case has disappeared from the english lexicon; at what point and for what reason is unknown.
