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Re: Disclaimer from Lunatic re: 1WSW
- Subject: Re: Disclaimer from Lunatic re: 1WSW
- From: foegelle@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)
- Date: 30 Mar 1994 10:45:15 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
- References: <2na41s$7gk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
In article <2na41s$7gk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
Auri Rahimzadeh <ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
>>Yoshi <yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU> wrote:
>>> He's not doing a great service anymore. :-/ He's reviewing games
>>> which are, oh, 6-12 months old, and it's like "(YAWN)". I don't
>>> see many people buying Incider anymore... Plus, I don't like his
<< Part of my post deleted to make the news reader happy! >>
>I think Yoshi is talking about what he DID, not what he's doing.
"He's" typically means "he IS", not "he was" or "he has".. The first sentence
establishes the time frame to be the present ("He IS not doing a great service
ANYMORE."). That immediately disproves your statement. Also, "I don't SEE"
is present tense as well, not past ("I didn't see" or "I saw").
Michael Foegelle
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