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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Chicken or Egg, continued #83244 10/12/02 02:49 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I don't think we should use its lack of separate verb forms to dismiss English's ability to handle subtleties in tense. We do wonders with auxiliary verbs. I used to go to Paris, I had gone to Paris, I have gone to Paris, I was going to Paris and I had been going to Paris all mean quite different things. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Chicken or Egg, continued Sparteye 10/10/02 05:37 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued wwh 10/10/02 06:07 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued vika 10/11/02 07:59 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued vika 10/11/02 02:11 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/11/02 02:31 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued AnnaStrophic 10/11/02 02:41 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/11/02 02:49 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued milum 10/10/02 06:39 PM What is the "English" verb form of "right now"? TEd Remington 10/10/02 06:48 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued TEd Remington 10/10/02 07:01 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Kupatchka 10/12/02 04:34 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Bobyoungbalt 10/12/02 04:43 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/12/02 02:49 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Bobyoungbalt 10/13/02 01:53 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/13/02 11:25 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Bobyoungbalt 10/14/02 02:53 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Capital Kiwi 10/14/02 05:36 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/14/02 10:07 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Capital Kiwi 10/14/02 08:22 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/14/02 08:25 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Capital Kiwi 10/14/02 08:34 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Alex Williams 10/14/02 10:04 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued of troy 10/14/02 10:34 PM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Faldage 10/15/02 10:29 AM Re: Chicken or Egg, continued Buffalo Shrdlu 10/15/02 12:13 PM Thorny fonts AnnaStrophic 10/15/02 12:36 PM Re: Thorn Bobyoungbalt 10/16/02 01:50 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,351 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 775 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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