Fwd: a request

[Charles Doyle]

Could the questioner mean "seen"?  (Though he writes "see" twice in the request.)

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:31:59 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: a request
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>"Mainstream" vernacular ?  Good luck !  Except as part of a general narrative in the historical present, this usage must be extremely uncommmon.
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>  JL
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>>Could you do me a favor and ask the ADS list something. I would like have to have a citation (with place, date, etc) of past tense "see" used in mainstream American English vernacular, as in "I see her yesterday" - if anyone could help me with that.
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>>David S.

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