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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen
<ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote:
> --- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy:
>
> > > > > Future Perfect 'he will have been praised'
> > > > ('have been' + 'will') + Infinitive
> > > > > (I don't think I've ever seen a Future Perfect Passive
> > > construction
> > > > > in Latin!)
> >
> > It certainly exists in Jovian though... |i haere fidu lauzadu|
> > /i hajr fi:d lo'za:d/. =P
>
> In Wenedyk, it is quite a common construction too: "Il\ fierzy
l\udat".
>
> Of course, this is a strange sentence. You would rather encounter
it in
> contexts like the following:
> "L\abórz fierzy fasta" (the work will be [have been] done).
>
> Jan
>
> =====
> "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P.
Jones
>
Future Perfect Passive does exist in Latin, but it is one of those
tenses whose use suggests that you should consider rephrasing the
sentence.