Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past" video.

  1. Cases are a different thing again, and are a function of nouns, not verbs. They use aspect and mood in such a way as to render tense unnecessary. (English uses all three and mashes them together in a convoluted mess, for contrast.)
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  2. It simply isn't taught.
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