Is mixing past tense with past perfect tense a particularly American affect?
> From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hey Andrew, don't go all American with your use of verbs!
>
> "If I had bought my . . . it would have cost . . ."
> or
> "If I bought . . . it would cost . . ."
>
> Chris
>
> On 30 Jan 2011, at 05:23, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> As I said here recently, If I bought my little Mac Air in the US it would
>> have cost me $300 less and come out of the same factory door in Guangzhou
>> (?).
>
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... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do
not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The
more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon
the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were
seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his
lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. --
Siddartha
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