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Old 03-06-11, 04:37 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Magnum View Post
Nostradamus is working at Bdu, notice the messages and the date/hour when was received

- so Nostradamus looked in the future and told to the Uboats on the 2.12.1943 that the convoy is departed on 16.12.1943 and other on 16.12.1943 - maybe convoy will depart on that date and the agents report the estimated date for depart... and the enigma made some gramatical mistakes

Edit: maybe the enigma use the same rule like in chinese: ''
English speakers use tenses to indicate actions in time. There are tenses for the past, present and future, with corresponding rules for verb conjugation and sentence structure.
Mandarin Chinese does not have these types of tenses. One of the main difference between English grammar and Chinese grammar is that Chinese verbs do not conjugate. The English verb “go,” for example, conjugates as “going, gone, went,” whereas the Chinese (go) is always the same no matter what the time frame is - The Chinese have to learn at least 5,000 characters in order to read a newspaper'' - so this could make sense and maybe they writted departed but you must read will depart - just jocking

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