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Originally Posted by pip08456
Unfortunately there is a problem with your pedantry. You are applying past tense to present tense.
Had Paul said there never has been you would be correct but he didn't.
As regards the coronation of the next monarch never happening immediately even after battle for the crown(e,g, the war of the roses), that still happens now.
Charles has been proclaimed king (as possibly happened on a battlefield) but his coronation won't happen until neat year.
Apologies if too pedantic.
at no time in the past or future; not ever.
"they had never been camping in their lives"
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I am using the definition of Never though. As I say I am not highly educated so I bow to it
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Originally Posted by Paul
Since I didnt say that, you point is ... pointless.  |
Still think it is interesting even if you do not. I am still not sure the is or has makes a difference to a word that literally means not ever
To expand is Not Ever to me still means eternally future and past shrugging my shoulders