Since you're still talking about my friend John and his rejected application, may I please ask for clarification? I don't know what you're talking about. Please put some meat on the bones.
Craig Hancock wrote: The point all of us are trying to make (patiently, I think) is that context matters.
"John was angry. His application had been turned down twice in three weeks."
There are very good reasons to mix these structures in a single sentence.
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DD: I think we are dealing with the investigation of a receiver's tentative understanding of the content of the messages before and after the interception of a partial transmission. It
is related to the study of redundancy in Communication Theory. It is not a trivial matter.
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