Brad did not "expose" anything, but simply tries to continue to goad me
into continuing a conversation long after I asked him to stop. That I
have failed in Brad's eyes to adequately define past perfect puts me in
pretty good company, along with the most respected grammarians of our
age. Anything different from his views is unacceptable.
   He just emailed me a message calling me many names, the most polite of
which is "jerk".
   There is, of course, nothing to "refute."
   He once told me, early on, that if I was nice to him he wouldn't
criticise my book in public. (As if his views had the power to hurt
anyone.)Put that in the context of his public criticism of both Richard
and Herb, who were both kind enough to try to talk to him privately.
   I find these tactics reprehensible and damaging to the collegial
climate we need for the list.
   If he wants to characterize that as "anger", so be it. It is as
dispassionate a view as I can come up with.


Craig   >

To be totally "open and honest", as Craig suggests, I should tell you all
> that he is still angry because I exposed (privately, nota bene) his
> inability to define, and explain, and illustrate, the "past perfect", as
> he called it in his grammar book in 2005, but which he now insists is the
> "past tense perfect aspect".
>  
> If he wants to refute this claim, I invite him to define it, openly and
> honestly, for us all.
>  
> .brad.24jan09. 
>
> --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Craig Hancock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  
> Brad,
>    If you don't hear from us, perhaps you should assume that we don't want
> to encourage you in your campaign to convince the world that many past
> perfect verb phrases are "wrong."
>    I suspect these are sentences that orignally had past perfect verb
> phrases in them, but have been revised with those changed over.
>    Please don't try to trick us back into a conversation we long ago grew
> tired of.
>    At least be open and honest.
> Craig
>
>
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