At 13:33 12/09/2020 +0200, Czeslaw Wolanski wrote:
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COMMENT
... there should be a way to gently move the
focus from the otherwise important "Apache /
Open Office" to Jörg's sound suggestion: "Open. For all. Since 20 years"
Sorry, but as has already been pointed out,
"since 20 years" is simply not English. "Since"
requires a point in time, not a period of time.
So you can say "since 2000" or "since twenty
years *ago*", but not "since 20 years". For a
period of time, idiomatic English definitely requires "for": "for 20 years".
Don't be embarrassed; here's a fun fact: you are
in good company. The lyricist of the Swedish pop
group ABBA (Björn Ulvaeus?) is proud of the
accuracy of the English lyrics he wrote. But he
quotes against himself the one mistake he
recognises. Not happening to be a pop fan, I've
had to look this up, but in _Fernando_ appears
the (incorrect) line "Since many years I haven't
seen a rifle in your hand". Read "For many years...".
Brian Barker
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