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the only thing that lets you live in the past, present, and future simultaneously.
means Tightly stretched, strained, or on edge — whether describing a muscle, a moment, or a person; in grammar, the form of a verb that marks when an action happens.
from From Latin 'tensus,' the past participle of 'tendere,' to stretch — the same root that pulls through 'tension,' 'tent,' and 'extend.' The grammatical 'tense' arrived by a separate road: through Old French 'tens' (time), from Latin 'tempus.' So English ended up with two identical-looking words from two different Latin sources — one about stretching, one about time — quietly sharing a spelling.
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- English arguably has only two true tenses: past and present
- no future
- English has no future tense, just helper words like will
- mandarin trick
- Chinese verbs never change for tense at all
- body link
- physical tension and verb tense share the same Latin root
- time travel
- grammar is the closest we get to bending time
cuban missile crisis — october 1962, us and soviet union nearly triggered nuclear war over missiles in cuba