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Bilbo Baggings is a Hobbit.
by shaki-dora 8y ago
Bilbo Baggings is a Hobbit.
- azag0 8y agoWords are used in a context which shapes their meaning. “Is” there implies to most that the aircraft already exists.
- em3rgent0rdr 8y ago“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
- azag0 8y agoWell, he was right about that, although there is little doubt his intent was to deceive.
- lolc 8y agoAre you saying that the headline obviously belongs to the fantasy domain?
- gpm 8y agoBilbo Baggins currently exists, as a fantasy character. The character in my new novel Tina Taggins will be a gnome though. I haven't written in that character yet. "is" vs "will" is a tense thing. This isn't yet a plane like Tina Taggins isn't yet a character in my novel so "will" is a appropriate.