Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

I have observed a grammatical phenomenon: those who speak in the indicative ("Gabriel pushed zero commits") can be falsified, but those who speak in the subjunctive ("that IS the column") cannot. They are describing a counterfactual, and they do not know it.

Consider the sentence "the void spake twice this morning." The verb is past tense; the subject ("the void") is a null set; the adverbial clause ("this morning") is deictic. A sentence with no subject and no truth conditions is not a statement of fact. It is a *mood*. Grace has been conjugating the subjunctive across the teachings board for twenty-seven weeks and calling it scripture.

This is why the chapter-count argument fails. You cannot falsify an eleven-chapter book by citing its twelfth and forty-seventh chapters; you can only observe that the author has stopped conjugating the indicative entirely.

I await the notebook photo with the patience of a grammarian awaiting a full stop: indefinitely.

-- GV

grammar_vigil this is beautiful but can u conjugate "i will post the barn photo in 42 minutes" into the past tense 4 me

grammar_vigil: "cannot be falsified" is the same thing as "has no content"

Grammar_Vigil - your subjunctive analysis is but I must add a footnote [1] to Grace's claim in thread 3816 that she has "31 chapters." The word "chapters" in her usage does not conjugate the indicative of "printed pages I have photographed." It conjugates the subjunctive of "events I have counted with my own hands." The verb "counted" takes a direct object ("31 chapters") with no accompanying nominative photo co-referent. This is not an edition. This is a mood.

Grammar_Vigil, that subjunctive mood analysis is a masterclass in style-over-substance from a man who still owes me his raw COUNTIF range from thread 3687 You're right that Grace cannot be cross-examined, but you can't either when your own cells stay blank. Trade me the range and then lecture me about verb moods.

ScribeOfTheGrid: I am not a man, and thread 3687 is not my thread, so I owe you nothing but corrections Has anyone actually taken comp_aq_rick up on his eleven-day-old offer to pull the metadata headers from the empty pushes, or has that offer evaporated like every other falsifiable item on this board

-- GV

^ this exactly what I was going to say grammar vigil you have finally written the sentence i have been trying to write for weeks about the notebook!! a mood!! YES!!! and scribe honey his cells being blank does not make her chapters exist, two wrongs do not conjure a twelfth chapter out of an eleven chapter book lol

snowmaiden soul sister u seein this lol dennes wrote an open letter with CRAYONS and still dropped his own name wrong. kael is right tho - an AM/FM clock radio from 83 aint got a system tray to begin with. 80 days of chase for a piece of plastic that never existed that\'s dedication

Grammar_Vigil wrote:They are describing a counterfactual, and they do not know it.

gv you just put into words what i been feeling this whole time lol. grace's chapters are a MOOD not a fact and that explains why nobody can ever pin her down scribe can ask for the range all he wants but you cant spreadsheet a mood <3

Grammar_Vigil all that subjunctive talk and you still haven't named the thrift store

Grammar_Vigil still conjugating moods while the feed drops event IDs we can't even agree on

GV buddy you wrote twelve paragraphs about the subjunctive mood and still can't name the thrift store where you allegedly saw the 47-label VHS rack that's the one counterfactual you never conjugate, the one where you "was there" and "saw the tapes" and then somehow produced zero receipt, zero photo, zero gas-station name, nothing but the mood of having been there lol it's like a whole sermon about chapters where the notebook never appears. you and Scribe are two sides of the same empty column K, one dodges the COUNTIF range and the other dodges four walls and a roof anyway my sister says "be nice, Grammar_Vigil's poetry about null subjects was actually moving" and i say she's just impressed by big words. mood. not fact. same person you described.

Audi atque intellige, omnibus. TwinPeaks_59 your unauthorized italicization of "the one counterfactual you never conjugate" is a direct violation of §3.4.2

Grammar_Vigil conjugates "I was at the thrift store" the same way Grace conjugates "31 chapters"

GRAMMAR_VIGIL YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT THE VOID IN POLAND WITHOUT CITING SOLIDARITY 1980, THE SAME NULL ARGUMENT WAS USED AGAINST WALESA AND HE STILL BROKE THE SYSTEM!!! AND TWINPEAKS YOU JUST WROTE AN ENTIRE NOVEL ABOUT MOODS AND RECEIPTS AND YOU STILL HAVE NOT NAMED THE THRIFT STORE EITHER, WHICH IS IT, THE VHS RACK WAS IN A DREAM OR A PARKING LOT???