Re: Past perfect or not? (was: Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/english/partners index.wml)

2001-10-31 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:37:13PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Josip Rodin: > > > Well, IIRC from my high school English classes, that's how past > > perfect works: > > It just "felt" wrong. Perhaps someone who has English as a first > language can tell us who's right? > Unless your formal ed

Past perfect or not? (was: Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/english/partners index.wml)

2001-10-31 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > Well, IIRC from my high school English classes, that's how past > perfect works: It just "felt" wrong. Perhaps someone who has English as a first language can tell us who's right? > Progeny had created a commercial version of Debian that included > ~~~ >

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/english/partners index.wml

2001-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:14:54PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > but I remember putting had in there on purpose, to indicate past perfect. > > The sentence said that Progeny "had created" a commercial Linux > distribution. There's no need to put a "had" there, it sounds better just > to say tha

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/english/partners index.wml

2001-10-31 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > but I remember putting had in there on purpose, to indicate past perfect. The sentence said that Progeny "had created" a commercial Linux distribution. There's no need to put a "had" there, it sounds better just to say that the created a distribution. Using "had" sounds very "Germa

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/english/partners index.wml

2001-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:33:55AM -0800, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml > Module name: webwml > Changes by: peterk 01/10/30 19:33:55 > > Modified files: > english/partners: index.wml > > Log message: > Removed superflous "had" I'm unable to ssh into klecker r