Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/17
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>You are asking to translate "these
> photographs" which obviously WERE taken earlier than the present
> moment, but you say ARE taken by my father. ARE is the present
> moment. I am not an English intellect but I have spoken English
> all of my life and this just does not compute. It should be "These
> photos WERE (implying a past action) taken by my father." Am I
> wrong??? Webster says:
>
> Are (#). See Am and Is, and cf. Be.] The PRESENT indicative plural
> of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word
> from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.
Well done, Jim. Quite! You beat me to the punch.
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Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
Leica Historical Society Of America
mailto:beamon@primenet.com
Thought for the day:
Who needs rhetorical questions?