"I love you for 2 years."

[bhaisahab]

hmm. I shall have to look that up.

Yes, you should do that.

[Chicken Sandwich]

But students reading our replies don't go to the trouble of perusing our profiles.

I can see 5jj's, emsr2d2's and HanibalII's signatures below their posts (without going to their profile page), but I had to enable this feature manually by going to Settings -> My Account -> General Settings -> Thread Display Options -> Visible Post Elements and then ticking the "Show Signatures"-box.

[BobK]

Yes, structurally possible, of course, but semantically rather improbable (one is hardly likely to set a time limit on future love!)

And even, in - say - a summary of such an improbable contract - even the present would be 'possible': 'OK, that's all agreed then: I love you for two years and you do your share of the housework...' But this sort of hypothetical use is of little or no relevance to actual language.

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[emsr2d2]

I can see 5jj's, emsr2d2's and HanibalII's signatures below their posts (without going to their profile page), but I had to enable this feature manually by going to Settings -> My Account -> General Settings -> Thread Display Options -> Visible Post Elements and then ticking the "Show Signatures"-box.

Really? I assumed all signature lines were visible by default. That might need to be looked at by the webmaster!

[5jj]

Really? I assumed all signature lines were visible by default.

So did I.