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Assume v. Presume

Has anyone else now heard and read the word 'Superfast' so often that it no longer seems wrong? :(
 
4291 said:
Me too, but if in doubt about it add the word mentally and it should make sense.
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Then why have you used 'Me too' rather than the correct 'I too'? 'Me too noticed....' does not make sense, but 'I too noticed...' does. Or are you being ironic?
 
Luke said "To me it makes sense.." I replied "(to)me too" :p

Edited. Sorry Luke I misquoted you.
 
Oh, drat and damnation. I think I'll stop trying to be a smart ass as it doesn't seem to work for me.:frantic:
 
gomezz said:
Not sure about that. You wouldn't say "Why was the victim killed where there are?". The tense depends on when the action of the verb took place.
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(I'm wondering if we have been around this loop before)

To me, "was" means "used to be but is no longer", whereas it is being used as "used to be, but may or may not be now". "Is" means "is now but the past is indeterminate", but as the fact that Stonehenge was built in the past is implied in the sentence, we have no need of further information about its past status. To extract maximum information from the quote (as presented), we have no knowledge (except by other means) that Stonehenge still stands.
 
Black Hole said:
(I'm wondering if we have been around this loop before)

To me, "was" means "used to be but is no longer", whereas it is being used as "used to be, but may or may not be now". "Is" means "is now but the past is indeterminate", but as the fact that Stonehenge was built in the past is implied in the sentence, we have no need of further information about its past status. To extract maximum information from the quote (as presented), we have no knowledge (except by other means) that Stonehenge still stands.
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That was a pointless argument!

(Was and still is! :p)

Ah well, back to weighing in mm and passing time by the gram...
 
But Stonehenge fell down years, if not centuries ago and was rebuilt during the first half of the last century pretty much in the same place as it was built in the first place and it still is still located there or thereabouts plus or minus a few kilograms.
 
Trev said:
But Stonehenge fell down years, if not centuries ago and was rebuilt during the first half of the last century pretty much in the same place as it was built in the first place and it still is still located there or thereabouts plus or minus a few kilograms.
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My head Hertz...
 
Trev said:
But Stonehenge fell down years, if not centuries ago and was rebuilt during the first half of the last century pretty much in the same place as it was built in the first place and it still is still located there or thereabouts plus or minus a few kilograms.
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But it was first built with stones!
 
Black Hole said:
Woodhenge is up the road a way.
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What about Strawhenge? :D

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