Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Strange grammatical phenomena

Twice today I've noticed uses of the future perfect tense: once in an interview broadcast by CNN (with a French lawyer), and once in one of our rather erratically written manuals.

What's next? Tmesis? The Container for the Thing Contained?

(While I have your ear, I only named those figures of speech because I like them, rather than because they're obscure or uncommon. But that's a whole nother discussion.)

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