I don't see how adding "that" is necessary to place it in the past.
"Didn't" is what places it in the past. What if I change the sentence
slightly and add quotes? Didn't McLuhan say: "The mangle is the
message." Adding "that" doesn't seem to fit at all there.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/13/2014 12:53 AM, ChrisB wrote:
Perhaps, Moose, but that’s a mixing of tenses as well. If McLuhan
said that, he did so in the past; so that should read, “Didn’t
McLuhan say that the mangle was the message?”.
I’ll have to look up McLuhan now.
Chris
On 12 Nov 14, at 23:05, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Didn't McLuhan say the mangle IS the message?
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