This really does put the professor who refused to use actual tense names as opposed to shouting “subjunctive” in my face in further perspective lol

(also, still took until now for someone to have explained this part where I could see it in ways I understood rip) https://twitter.com/gretchenamcc/status/993356682049835008

Said professor can have a moment of peace and forgiveness when she retroactively no longer negatively affected my or my partner’s ability to speak my native language in a foreign setting, how about that.

I think it’s completely irrational to compare something like antepospretérito to a mood, given my understanding from this thread; it’s not describing a speaker’s relationship to the event, it’s the relationship between multiple distinct events on their own frame of reference.

(A man submits that, if you can’t tell the difference between the two, you probably shouldn’t teach literature, because that says an awful lot about how you think about the minds of others right there.)