[riverkid]

Originally Posted by shun

Nothing Escapes From Time

My reply: You must think that English tense is used to express feelings. It isn't. Feelings have no objective standard, but tense does. By the way, Sentences express feelings.

Shun, if we are to have a reasonable discussion on these issue then you're going to have to get your thinking and your stories straight.

Here, from the thread, "Newspaper Time", we can see that you've contradicted yourself [important] // you contradicted yourself. [less so]


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Originally Posted by riverkid
There. I've just reported this to everyone here at Using English. I had my choice of 'said' or 'says'. Using present simple gives the listener the feeling that this is something that Shun still believes, that Shun is quite adamant about what he says, that Shun is likely to say the same thing if someone else asks him.


My reply: Yes, "feeling" is a good explanation.


shun
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