another SOTA (the Lyons meet the Jones)

[Dan Goncharoff]

Using the past tense for an event that just happened "bites the big one"??

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On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: another SOTA (the Lyons meet the Jones)
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Google will helpfully ask you if you meant
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> It's only me, no doubt, but Google's use of "_Did_ you mean…" in place
> of "_Do_ you mean…" bites the big one.
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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