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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

As we were, he tells me



At 13:49,

-As we were eating Okinawa Soba noodles, he tells me he wants to compare them with Shinsu Soba noodles.

Why tells not told? Why wants not wanted?
  

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I cannot watch the video (get "blocked in your country" message), but I assume that your transcription is correct. The use of the present tense to describe past events (the "historical present") can be a way of making a narrative seem more vivid or immediate.

— GPY

  • I cannot watch the video (get "blocked in your country" message), but I assume that your transcription is correct.
  • The use of the present tense to describe past events (the "historical present") can be a way of making a narrative seem more vivid or immediate.
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I cannot watch the video (get "blocked in your country" message), but I assume that your transcription is correct. The use of the present tense to describe past events (the "historical present") can be a way of making a narrative seem more vivid or immediate.
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GPY I assume that your transcription is correct.
It is.
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