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		jacquesm on Sept 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post > Arrington has said that many who attended this event were friends of his. How apt.

mc32 on Sept 22, 2010 [–]

That's disingenuous --that's called reported speech. (in reported speech, tenses go back one).

jacquesm on Sept 22, 2010 | [–]

I'm sorry, non-native speaker here, that's just what it meant to me. Shall we continue in Dutch ?

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