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[Duly Diligent]

FG: "Could" shows "Future probability" ....

"Could have" shows "Past possibility"

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"Could (NOT can) is sometimes used in the same way as might or may, often indicating something less definite.

'When I leave university I might travel around a bit, I might do an MA or I suppose I could even get a job.' "

REF:

http://lmu.uce.ac.uk/lmu/esu/modals.htm#Could

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FG, while "shall/will" indicate future tense, they are by no means the only phrases that do so. BTW, today's english lesson is free to you, in appreciation of your fine investment advice (provided, perhaps, the investor is contrarian).

You say "I KNOW FOR SURE that the product .. works". And several others here feel the same, supposedly from first-hand experience. That's why the most puzzling thing to me about Ditka's comments is the terminology he uses describing this working ability -"If that product could work, it would be the most profitable company in America." He accepts this only as a possibility, even as of yesterday. Why did he phrase it like this ? Does he know something we don't ?

"It's not a lose rivet that's going to change anything". True, but 10,000 rivets may have an appreciable effect, especially combined with all the other design/production problems and delays which seem to have plagued this product in a consecutive, on-going pattern - one after another seemingly ad infinitum.

And there is little hard evidence (from an unbiased third-party of any consequence) that this pattern has been broken. You said "there should be substantial demand for it, once properly marketed and produced in sufficient quantities..." True, but that's the BIG IF. And stockholders have been promised, and some have been waiting for, this pie-in-the-sky for over a year.