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An encounter with language is meaningful. The experience leaves an indelible imprint. Thought is given form. The universe of the mind is disclosed to us. It grants us the power to build new worlds, to share powerful ideas… and to destroy both. I am interested in how this happens and how it came to be this way...

Present-Perfect Confusion

To remedy my students’ confusion in today’s lecture regarding the use of the present tense, I looked up the definition provided by Geoffrey Leech:


‘When thinking about ‘present time’ we can think of a period including the present time and extending indefinitely into the past and into the future. In this sense, ‘present time’ is potentially all-inclusive. On the other hand, ‘past time’ is limited by

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Published on October 20, 2015 11:31
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Stephen Greenblatt
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
Stephen Greenblatt

Alan Lightman
“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

Matt Haig
“As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonisation, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon), the victimisation of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape.”
Matt Haig, The Humans

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