Yes, it turns out that he was up rather late doing some writing by candlelight, and had nodded off, letting his pen fall by his candle. As the candle melted down to the pen, the heat had caused its case to ignite, and the fumes awoke the man who then saw that his pen is on fire.
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Anonymous2011-05-07 1:04
At least he didn't exclaim something about candlejack, that would have gotte
>>18
The story is about a man in HIS present, Eistien.
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fart man2011-05-07 20:38
>>20
So what? The story is still being told by someone else which assumes the story is in the past. "awoke the man who then saw that his pen is on fire" is not a grammatically correct sentence. Surely you can see that.
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Anonymous2011-05-08 0:28
>>21
He didn't see that his pen was already burnt. He saw it burning NOW!
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Anonymous2011-05-08 0:50
It's pretty common to see news articles that are written in the past tense but have a present tense headline. If you believe this grammatically "incorrect", fuck you and the autistic prescriptivist horse you rode in on.
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Anonymous2011-05-08 3:25
or you could skip the confusion and say at that point the man exclaimed, "My pen is on fire!"
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Anonymous2011-05-08 3:29
>>24
No there's no confusion as the man saw his pen is on fire. End of story!
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Anonymous2011-05-08 12:15
>>23
Fuck off and die, descriptivist scum. It is your fault that the English language is going down the drain nowadays. Please commit apoptose.
>>26
From his point of view, however, the pen is on fire. Also, did everyone in lounge take linguistics 101 or something? Because you are all tossing around terms like prescriptivist and descriptivist like frisbees at the park.