more time-delay issues on the Olympic front

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:59 PM -0500 8/16/08, Barbara Need wrote:
>...
>P.S. So far, all further tokens of "tonight" or "this evening" I have
>heard have been uttered by announcers, so those are probably
>intentional. I have heard no further athlete generate it. I will keep
>listening.
>
I did just notice the NBC voice-over announcer mixing his tenses with
abandon in talking about the 100 meter race that they are about to
present from last night (i.e. on 12-hour or so tape delay), referring
to how "in the Beijing final last night two Jamaicans...race for
gold" in the 100 meter event. "Coming up next, the explosion of speed
that emerged in that match up."  (Followed by a couple of other
present and past tenses.)

LH

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