Chris, and the rest of you english language scholars-
So is this the same kind of error as someone saying:
"That lens needs cleaned."
Instead of:
"That lens needs to be cleaned."
Or:
"That lens needs cleaning."
Whatever it is, that first form is fairly common, and always grates on my ears.
Thanks, Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa
Chris Barker wrote:
> Not at all Brian. I was a little cross with myself because of my
> schoolboy error ;-).
>
> You missed the mistake in tenses in that radio interviewer. It
> should have been, " ... do you not think that if you *had done* this
> on Friday ...". It is a common problem on the US media: we are
> losing part of the past because no one is using the pluperfect tense.
>
> Chris
>
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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>
> On 14 Dec 2005, at 23:33, Brian Swale wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I didn't really mean to get up the nose of Chris and I hope you
>>noticed the
>> :-)> Chris.
>>
>>One source of persistent irritation for me is a practice that our
>>announcers
>>(interviewers) on National Radio here have; and that is to ask
>>questions in a
>>negative form. I frequently take issue with them on it. And
>>sometimes they
>>take notice for a day or two.
>>
>>These announcers/interviewers tend to be somewhat aggressive in their
>>questioning manner, and often seem to disagree with the person being
>>interviewed. So a question might go like this.
>>
>>For example: " Do you not think that if you did this on Friday
>>rather than
>>Thursday there would be a better outcome?"
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