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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Newsgroups: soc.misc
Subject: Re: Words (was Re: Paging)
Message-ID: <2086@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 15:31:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 15:31:39 1986
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In article <875@ptsfb.UUCP> rob@ptsfb.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>>>                        Consider, for example, this sentence:
>>>`Today was and will be a wonderful day, although it is presently
>>>raining'.  Without the word `presently', it means something entirely
>>>different.
>
>>I don't see the difference.
>
>The difference is that if you don't use the word "presently", it sounds
>like it is a rainy day, and that either in spite of that or because of
>that, the day was/will be wonderful. When the word "presently", what
>it implies is that it is "only presently" raining, and that it previously
>was and soon will again be a wonderful day.
>
  Sure, but "now" works better than "presently":  "Today was and will be
a wonderful day, although it is now raining."  But who talks like that?
-- 
"I don't need a course in self-awareness to find out who I am
 and I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack 
 than all the bean sprouts in Japan"
     
Steve "Blore" Howard, giving Godot just five more minutes to show up
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