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   From: anton.txt@gmail.moc   
      
   Peter Moylan to Ruud Harmsen:   
      
   > > 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't answer for non-native speakers, but as a native   
   > speaker of English I find the difference obvious.   
   >   
   > The matter is, however, more complicated than it sounds.   
      
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