11-10-2008, 02:32 AM | #1 |
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If SU was truly sincere
He would have been at this protest, unless he's using the alias Corianton Hale.
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11-10-2008, 02:34 AM | #3 |
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Grammar Nazi strikes again. What would we do without you?
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We would use the imperfect indicative active in a present contra-factual protasis, for one. We would never have lived that down.
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No, we'd be uneducated nerds, who wrote and spoke badly.
Subjunctive in our language is badly mastered. I must admit until it was introduced to me in foreign languages, I had no idea what it was or how to use it in English. Y learned Mandarin which doesn't have mood in that sense, so you'll have to excuse his dislike of the mood.
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If I was you, I wouldn't worry so much about the subjunctive.
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Excellent.
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How barbaric! I suppose you don't even wish we had aorist aspect in our language.
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