over_clox@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoIf shit is present tense, and shat is past tense, is there no future tense of the word shit?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareIf shit is present tense, and shat is past tense, is there no future tense of the word shit?over_clox@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up64·10 months agoSimilar to many verbs that need an object, you add “will” to the present tense. He will run. She will jump. You will shit.
minus-squarewhatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·10 months ago You will shit. Yes mommy. <3
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoIt’s coming for you Batman. Hold still.
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoIf dropping a penny from the top of the Empire State Building is not capable of killing a person on the street, what damage can be expected from dropping a deuce from the same height?
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoLarger surface area spread/splat.
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoShall and will can be interchanged. “Are going to” is slightly different. Still future yes, but is usually used to indicate intention rather than decisions. “I will shit soon” and “I am going to shit” both mean basically the same thing but the connotations of those sentences are slightly different.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down11·10 months agoAh, but shit isn’t always a verb, it’s also a noun… 💩
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·10 months agoNouns don’t need tenses. Shit in the future and shit in the past.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down14·10 months agoVery true, but still… shat, shit, ???
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoFuture shit will not stink.
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThe present or the futuristic fart?
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoMy farts linger and travel forward in time…
Similar to many verbs that need an object, you add “will” to the present tense.
He will run. She will jump. You will shit.
Yes mommy. <3
It’s coming for you Batman. Hold still.
In your case, you’re gonna guano
If dropping a penny from the top of the Empire State Building is not capable of killing a person on the street, what damage can be expected from dropping a deuce from the same height?
Larger surface area spread/splat.
Will, shall, are going to
Shall and will can be interchanged.
“Are going to” is slightly different. Still future yes, but is usually used to indicate intention rather than decisions.
“I will shit soon” and “I am going to shit” both mean basically the same thing but the connotations of those sentences are slightly different.
I must go shilt soon…
Ah, but shit isn’t always a verb, it’s also a noun… 💩
Nouns don’t need tenses.
Shit in the future and shit in the past.
Very true, but still…
shat, shit, ???
shite
So is run and jump.
Future shit will not stink.
My farts say otherwise.
The present or the futuristic fart?
My farts linger and travel forward in time…