- By Jim Evans
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Smart Talk
by by Dr. Shirley Glibb
AT THE PRESENT MOMENT: It hardly seems fair: At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, some patients say at the present moment, and we label them temporal retentives. After all, they can't commit themselves to saying now. That hardly seems retentive, but we treat them in the same clinic as those who say twelve midnight and four A.M. in the morning.
The at the present moment sufferers also evade now by saying at the present time, or worse, at this moment in time, whatever that is. They could at least say at present, at the moment, or at this time.
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