Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <4803@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 22:51:54 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.4803 Posted: Fri Jan 6 22:51:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jan-84 01:09:11 EST Lines: 7 #R:gatech:-180400:uokvax:4500002:37777777600:114 uokvax!emjej Jan 5 10:08:00 1984 I also recall reading that French uses the present perfect almost to the exclusion of the past. James Jones