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David's avatar

My count down to retirement was based on how many trash days left to get there.

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Stephen's avatar

Let’s review the principle parts of the verb ‘take’: I take, I took, I have taken.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Additional thought. The English language is a fucking mess. I'm surprised we can communicate at all with all the nonsense nouns, adverbs and such. In collitch I wrote one essay a week for eleven weeks. I received 11 A-'s. Your comment was written on top of each essay by Professor Imelda Cannon. On my final essay she wrote, "Mike, I will hunt you down and kill you if you don't pursue a career in writing." THE END

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Stephen's avatar

Worse, is the use of the perfect and pluperfect interchangeably, thus erasing the relationship of events occurring in the past.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

I'm not that bored.

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Stephen's avatar

You may think it a trivial and pedantic matter, but, underlying, is the loss of the distinction between the simple past and the present perfect, which impoverishes the expressive power of language.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Groovy, but you missed the fun, you missed the peace. Tragic. As it turns out I didn't need your like to get to three likes to continue TRASH DAY Thursdays. Ideas are already generating for next TRASH DAY.

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