* putting emphasis on the result<\/p>\n
* action that is still going on<\/p>\n
* action that stopped recently<\/p>\n
* finished action that has an influence on the present<\/p>\n
* action that has taken place once, never or several times before the moment of speaking<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As we can see, all but the third apply (since Douglass died in 1895): 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n
So, as usual with hysterical, hilariously funny, logically- and charity- challenged anti-Trumpism, there is nothing to it at all. Much ado about nothing . . . Couldn\u2019t they have [that\u2019s the Conditional II Simple tense] taken a second to consult a grammar explanation, as I did [Simple Past tense]? Would that have put them out?<\/p>\n
Thus, in the act of (quite astonishingly) condescendingly pretending that Trump has no idea who Douglass was, they show that they have no idea what English grammar is, or how to use Google for two seconds, to see if the tense was possible to use in that context.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t remember the tense names, either. I hated<\/em> grammar in school, even though I ended up as a writer and got A\u2019s in my English classes. That\u2019s not the point. It\u2019s that they couldn\u2019t look it up<\/em>. Instead, they went right after Trump, and consequently made asses of themselves. Poetic justice, if ever there was a case of it!<\/p>\nThe final laugh is at their expense, and I think that is delicious: exactly as it should be: the mockers show themselves far more ignorant than the target they set out to besmirch.<\/p>\n
Sun Tzu, the Chinese Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher (c. 544- 496 BC) wrote the classic Art of War<\/em>. He stated in that masterpiece:<\/p>\nMaster Sun talks often about deception and therefore warns against being deceived by the enemy and underestimating their ability. \u2018He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.\u2019 It\u2019s important to properly assess your opponent without prejudice or assumption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Liberals, third-partiers, and Establishment Republicans are massively committing this elementary mistake and a textbook exhibition of a profound absence of charity right now. I hope that they continue indefinitely, because it is already setting up a massive landslide re-election of Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s another famous saying, too: \u201cif your opponent is self-destructing, you get out of the way and let him do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I asked an anti-Trumpist friend of mine: \u201cHow does this show that Trump didn\u2019t know who he was? Please explain this \u201clogic\u201d to me.\u201d\u00a0He replied:<\/p>\n
Does it sound<\/strong><\/em> like he knows he\u2019s talking about a historical figure who died the century before last? Or does it sound like he thinks he might be talking about someone who\u2019s maybe still around today?<\/p>\nWhat grammar books say in the abstract is one thing. How language actually sounds to the ears of native English speakers is another. Context matters. Would you say \u201cGeorge Washington has left a lasting mark on history\u201d? Sure. Would you say \u201cGeorge Washington has done a great job\u201d? Of course not. I can\u2019t stop you from putting your fingers in your ears and saying \u201cLa la la, it sounds fine to me!\u201d but every native English speaker reading this knows I\u2019m right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is why we have dictionaries and rules of grammar. It would be chaos without them.\u00a0So he uses some \u201cgoofy\u201d language? So what<\/em>? Because of that<\/em><\/strong>, the liberals decide he either didn\u2019t know who Douglass was at all, or thinks that he is still alive?\u00a0It\u2019s the funniest thing in the world to watch. My love of satire and human folly has never been so much fun as now.<\/p>\nIf President Trump doesn\u2019t know who Frederick Douglass was \u201cbecause\u201d he used an odd-sounding but permissible grammatical tense (Present Perfect Simple), what can we conclude that oh-so-smart President Obama didn\u2019t know, as evidenced by repeatedly saying \u201cCorPsman\u201d with a hard P: which really is<\/em><\/strong> stupid and completely unjustifiable (not to mention funny as all get-out)?\u00a0Maybe he didn\u2019t know that Noah Webster ever lived? Or that there is such a thing as the US Marine Corps [which is pronounced as \u201ckor\u201d and not \u201ccorpse\u201d]? The guy never even watched Gomer Pyle<\/em>!<\/p>\nThis silliness reminds me of the time that Trump said \u201cTwo Corinthians\u201d in a church, rather than \u201c2nd Corinthians\u201d, and all the nattering nabobs were saying how ignorant and unacquainted with Christian practice he was.\u00a0It turned out that at least some\u00a0Presbyterians (especially Scottish ones) say it that way. Trump\u2019s mother was from Scotland. Then I heard from several on my Facebook page, saying that their church (or former church, as it were) did the same thing.<\/p>\n
Foiled again! But millions had probably read the potshots and very few the altogether sensible rebuttal.<\/p>\n
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Photo credit:<\/strong> Frederick Douglass in the 1860s<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n***<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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