My last entry of the day ... probably
I'm playing Longest Journey now, and I've having this conversation with a creature who perceives all moments in time simultaneously, so that it is incapable of finely distinguishing the difference between what happens in the future and what happens in the past. Therefore, it mixes up the three tenses in his speech.
The main character, despite knowing that this creature sees all time simultaneously, says that it(he?) is being too obtuse and she cannot understand him. I find this funny because I can understand about 70% of what he says, possibly because the tenses in Chinese, while still having past, present, and future, are not as clear cut as English ones are. If the creature says, "I thank you for accepting my having invited you," before he actually invited you, that means, "I will be thanking you, for you will be accepting the invitation which I will be giving you." I think it's pretty obvious.
The main character, despite knowing that this creature sees all time simultaneously, says that it(he?) is being too obtuse and she cannot understand him. I find this funny because I can understand about 70% of what he says, possibly because the tenses in Chinese, while still having past, present, and future, are not as clear cut as English ones are. If the creature says, "I thank you for accepting my having invited you," before he actually invited you, that means, "I will be thanking you, for you will be accepting the invitation which I will be giving you." I think it's pretty obvious.