[Grammar] pasts, presents and futures

[Tarheel]

There are always at least two pasts--the "objective" past and what a person remembers about it.

 

[magic dragon]

Thank you jutfrank for your sincere response. I totally agree.

 

[magic dragon]

That's right. The former is commonly understood and shared by people at large, but as for the latter, I agree with jutfrank in saying that "everyone has their own private mental ideas of what we call 'the past', and you are free to understand things in the way that makes most sense to you". So so much for today. I'm a little far from being linguistic, as jutfrank says. Thank you Tarheel.

 

[Tarheel]

It was just an observation. It was neither right nor wrong.