XPost: alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english, nl.taal   
   From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   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.   
      
   Not hard, is it? Easier than ‘Henry VI’s throne’, anyway.   
      
   Source: https://rudhar.com/fonetics/build.htm   
   --   
   Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)