Hey, just so you know, many of your "its"s are missing apostrophes. Interesting take on the "future conditional" thing, although I believe what he meant is literally what he said: "change the *tense* to future conditional" so the statement would go from "how did they know this is what I liked?" to "how would they know what I like" or "how did they know what I would like" / "how did they know the type of thing I would like?" The future conditional tense is the grammatical future hypothetical (hence "conditional").
Got a lot out of this post. Seen TLP mentioned in various places but never felt compelled to read his work until now.
Hey, just so you know, many of your "its"s are missing apostrophes. Interesting take on the "future conditional" thing, although I believe what he meant is literally what he said: "change the *tense* to future conditional" so the statement would go from "how did they know this is what I liked?" to "how would they know what I like" or "how did they know what I would like" / "how did they know the type of thing I would like?" The future conditional tense is the grammatical future hypothetical (hence "conditional").
you're probably right, grammar isn't my strong suit and i was not sure if my take was correct when i wrote it tbh