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Post #204,919
by Another Scott
4/27/05 7:49:13 AM
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New I think I would have used "was".
I took TJ's sentence as:

I wonder what was in the book that caused Jobs and Apple to take this action.


I don't think is works as well there.

YMMV.

Oh, and the book isn't due out for another month, so this may be an example of one of those weird [link|http://www.answers.com/topic/english-verbs|past/future imperfect] things in English (talking about something in the present that happened in the past that we won't know about until the future).

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #204,921
by CRConrad
4/27/05 8:34:08 AM
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New Ah, that's a relief.
So I only (possibly/probably) misread TJS.

Seeing the title of your post, I was beginning to fear I'd got some language thing wrong for the simple interpretation that I thought was the case here, of TJS actually thinking that the book had been stoppedd from appearing altogether.

Don't scare people like that, ScottyKat! ;-)


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
     "Apple Retaliates Over Jobs Biography" - (a6l6e6x) - (27) - April 26, 2005, 09:59:57 PM EDT
         This doesn't seem right - (tjsinclair) - (12) - April 26, 2005, 10:24:28 PM EDT
             You must be very busy. - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - April 26, 2005, 10:36:12 PM EDT
                 Seems to be an update of an earlier work. - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 26, 2005, 11:12:11 PM EDT
                     Sort of, but not for the reason everyone else is PO'd - (scoenye) - April 27, 2005, 10:48:41 AM EDT
                 Well, it keeps me off the streets... -NT - (tjsinclair) - April 27, 2005, 01:21:02 AM EDT
             Y "wonder what WAS in" it? Still IS - just BUY it elsewhere! -NT - (CRConrad) - (2) - April 27, 2005, 01:09:51 AM EDT
                 I think I would have used "was". - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 27, 2005, 07:49:13 AM EDT
                     Ah, that's a relief. - (CRConrad) - April 27, 2005, 08:34:08 AM EDT
             From the Motley Fool: - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - April 27, 2005, 05:03:16 PM EDT
                 The hope from Apple would be... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - April 27, 2005, 05:21:57 PM EDT
                     So what's Apple's volumes for book sales? - (ChrisR) - (2) - April 27, 2005, 06:30:04 PM EDT
                         Point - (ben_tilly) - (1) - April 27, 2005, 07:27:26 PM EDT
                             Yep. Their action was couterproductive. - (a6l6e6x) - April 27, 2005, 08:56:43 PM EDT
         Can't say I blame them - (tuberculosis) - (11) - April 27, 2005, 12:36:27 PM EDT
             Well, didn't he? - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - April 27, 2005, 01:37:14 PM EDT
                 Not in my book - (tuberculosis) - (7) - April 27, 2005, 02:17:46 PM EDT
                     The Apple II was made popular by VisiCalc, and . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - April 27, 2005, 02:43:41 PM EDT
                     Good to know you aren't all that freakishly brilliant. - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 27, 2005, 04:08:33 PM EDT
                         As opposed to Dell/Gates - (tuberculosis) - April 27, 2005, 05:46:53 PM EDT
                     points to the gryge except for the NeXT, beautiful box - (boxley) - (3) - April 27, 2005, 09:03:44 PM EDT
                         Wow. You really have done everything, haven't you? :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 27, 2005, 09:25:13 PM EDT
                             naw, there is a wicker swing with a hole in the bottom..... -NT - (boxley) - April 27, 2005, 09:36:44 PM EDT
                         I'll partially concede on the NeXT . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - April 27, 2005, 10:29:45 PM EDT
                 Grygus on Apple - (rcareaga) - (1) - April 27, 2005, 10:26:59 PM EDT
                     Me on Osborne - (Ashton) - May 2, 2005, 05:33:17 AM EDT
         Cringely's take on it - (SpiceWare) - (1) - April 29, 2005, 10:23:22 AM EDT
             Steve knows how the game is played - (cforde) - April 30, 2005, 02:48:57 AM EDT

Ramble on.
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