[Ads-l] Spam semantics; English tense

[Wilson Gray]

"You will receive one final email to confirm that we unsubscribed you."

Really, y'all? Why not confirm it simply by not sending me any more e-mail?


That this sentence does not read,

"You will receive one final email to confirm that we _HAVE_ unsubscribed you
"

signals a paradigm shift <har! har!> in the manner of indicating tense,
"seemlike t'me." There is no longer any overt indication that signals that
an action that became true in the past continues to be true in the present.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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