Re: Bug#169533: reportbug vs. ^z suspend and spurious message

[Rich Rudnick <rich@pinute.com>]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:18, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:23:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > > Accordingly, because I believe in the concept of causality, I am
> > > > > closing this report.  (Present tense;
> > > > 
> > > > Present perfect.  ;-)
> > > 
> > > No, "am closing" is present progressive. :)
> > 
> > Well, I don't have a grammar book handy.
> > 
> > I guess this will teach me to argue the verb inflections of any language
> > with someone who's fluent in Latin.  :-P
> 
> lol.  "present perfect" is something like "I have eaten the figs".
> 
[...]
> This quickly gets way more complex.  
> 

Thanks for the memories, Thomas! Shades of Attic Greek 101 :)


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