Its name was largely to differentiate itself from their purely future tense-loving Cyber Punk cousins because to be a steampunk is to have one eye on the rearview, to a reimagined Victorian idyll powered by the tech of today.
And they'll usually be cool wIts it.
While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense their leader would be speechless.
As a result, we know things like whether high performers primarily use the past or future tense in their answers, what kinds of pronouns and adverbs low performers choose, and so much more.
What is harder to understand is why people speak in the future tense about their worries months after the worst has already happened and the risk would seem to be gone.
YAMs indicated they would be concerned about losing weight only if something drastic occurred in their lives, although with such events phrased in the future tense.
The narrative of "Mudbound," however, is resolutely closed, circular, lacking a future tense or a past tense; it keeps the events of the past locked in their place.
Note the future tense here.
Try to believe in the future tense".
They repeat this for the present tense and future tense.
