- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Shirley Glibb
AT THE PRESENT TIME: The Institute for the Linguistically Impaired is about halfway to its goal in raising funds to add to the Edwin Newman Center for Temporal Retentives. Sufferers - sorry; survivors; must be politically correct - seem to have multiplied, especially during the past eight years.
Temporal retentives also say as it was in the past, at the present moment, at some time to come, and at a later date.
After treatment, they simply use past, present and future tense or say then, now, and later.
What they say sounds smarter, and what they write looks more literate.
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