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Saturday, June 19, 2004

Former

I hate it when people use "former" this way (referring to a living person):

"He was a former school teacher."

No, he *is* a former school teacher. Possibly, the sentence above could mean that he is now once again a school teacher --

-- or that he is now dead, but, after his teaching career, he *was* a former school teacher.

Got it?

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