Sunday, 16 October 2011

Try Something New Today

What a shame that an Asian shopkeeper favoured by the student shoppers of Cambridge failed to beat Lord Sainsbury for the Chancellorship of that University. He could have started a trend. The choice of Sir Thomas Allen for Durham is splendid indeed. But next time, it could have been Sammy Sultana.
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3 comments:

  1. begor17 October 2011 at 11:31

    "Next time it could have been..."

    "Next time it could be" or "This time it could have been". The future pluperfect suffers as a tense from being a) unwieldy and b) non-existent.

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  2. David Lindsay17 October 2011 at 18:46

    It is unwieldy, but it exists. The arts and humanities would be impossible without it.

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  3. Anonymous17 October 2011 at 21:34

    No future pluperfect? What a very pedestrian mind you must have, begor.

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