I received the following text message from somebody called "789" recently:
"Starting soon, we thought we'd text you when your Virgin Mobile balance is £2. That way, you'll never get caught short again!"
I may just be wearing my pedant's hat**, but isn't the first sentence just an aimless meander back and forth between tenses? It basically says: "In the future, we did something in the past when something presently happens".
My mobile phone usage has steadily increased over the last couple of years, to the extent that I'm spending more than a pound a month these days. But, if this is how I should be wording my texts, it appears that I have a long way to go before I can truly claim to be part of the mobile phone generation.
**or should that be pedants' hat, I ask in my pedant's voice. Or should that be pedants' voice?
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