http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/06/the-future-is-now/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/06/the-future-is-now/#comment-9 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:36:22 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/the-future-is-now/#comment-9 This is just another example of broadcast news ‘efficiency’. I’ve noticed, and been annoyed by, a trend over the past few years of television news readers sounding like newspaper headlines. They leave out the little words to shorten the time devoted to a sentence or story, and also to make it easier for the reader to keep up with the teleprompter. In the case of your example, the simple present is one word, but the future is two.

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