Please stop encouraging your writers to use the historical present tense ("I'm outside Baskyn and Robbins." No, you *are* not. You *were* outside Baskyn and Robbins at the time of the memory which you recalled when you wrote the article.) English has many varieties of the past tense *for a reason* and it's *beyond reason* depressing to s…
Please stop encouraging your writers to use the historical present tense ("I'm outside Baskyn and Robbins." No, you *are* not. You *were* outside Baskyn and Robbins at the time of the memory which you recalled when you wrote the article.) English has many varieties of the past tense *for a reason* and it's *beyond reason* depressing to see journalists ignoring it. That's not a style point; please re-read the Orwell essay on politics and the English language.
Please stop encouraging your writers to use the historical present tense ("I'm outside Baskyn and Robbins." No, you *are* not. You *were* outside Baskyn and Robbins at the time of the memory which you recalled when you wrote the article.) English has many varieties of the past tense *for a reason* and it's *beyond reason* depressing to see journalists ignoring it. That's not a style point; please re-read the Orwell essay on politics and the English language.