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   Pancho Sanza to Ruud Harmsen   
   Re: Build   
   16 Dec 25 20:49:06   
   
   XPost: alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english, nl.taal   
   From: spansanza@gmail.com   
      
   Ruud Harmsen  wrote:   
      
   >As a non-native speaker, can you hear, and make, the difference   
   >between “We built this city on rock and roll” (not one of my favourite   
   >songs by the way; don’t know why) and the present tense variant ‘We   
   >build this city …’?   
   >   
   >I can.   
      
   Me2.   
      
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   Pancho   
      
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