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|    Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin    |
|    A question about tenses    |
|    22 May 20 13:31:52    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 5ec7aa16       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5ec6da50       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20200418       EID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15       Alexander Koryagin:              > No limit for informal speech. Let's try to remove the past tense       > at all:       >       > "I remember a song from the 1950's in which a woman tells her       > children what her mother tells her when she is a little       > girl..." ;-)              You have gone over board and beyond the limit, Alexader.       So there *is* a limit.              ---         * Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/1120 1634 2100 5138       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 8001 8002 8005 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003       SEEN-BY: 280/5006 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 342/200 382/147       SEEN-BY: 423/81 2454/119 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 221/6 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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