um , you know , you say something like  or  or I was thinking you can say something like , " oh , I thought , uh , you are a republican " or something like that. Where as in English you would say , " I thought you were ".
Right.
Um , you know , sort of the past tense being copied onto the lower verb doesn't happen there , so you have to say something about , you know , tense is determined relative to current blah - blah - blah.
Mm - hmm.