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Robert LeChevalier scripsit:
> It seems to me that the existence and allowance for potential tense (which
> can be elliptical) requires that one can be a potential novelist who has
> not actually written any novels, etc. Of the above therefore, only an
> illiterate reader seems to be impossible, and then only if one assumes that
> someone illiterate isn't potentially literate.
Quite so. I was speaking in the ca'a tense only.
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