@icedquinn

In that case each instance of read seems unambiguous to me

@thor

@freemo @thor only with a significant amount of nearby context.

i think thor's complaint is coming from a celtic language where the inflection carries that information directly.

@icedquinn @freemo i mean, here's how we do the word "read" in Norwegian (and very similar in the other Scandinavian languages - largely just spelling differences, as usual)

å lese = to read (the act of reading in general)

leser = reads/reading (is currently reading or reads in general)

leste = read (in the past)

har lest = has/have read (the action is completed)

@freemo @thor “you read it many times” - a native English speaker usually wouldn’t say it that way, it would either be “you have read it many times”, “have you read it many times?”, or “you have to read it many times”,

@Vedrfolnir @thor

Yea i just cant think of a way to make it ambiguous without having an improper sentance

@freemo @Vedrfolnir how dare you suggest that the Bard would fail an English exam?

@thor @freemo haha, I’m a native English speaker but I absolutely hated English class in school.

@thor fair i can see that. Though context should make that one obvious.

@Coyote @thor

Yea that on its own is ambiguous, but the context woukd still make that one obvious id think

@freemo @Coyote well, any language limitation can be mitigated with further elaboration.