Re: Ear-grating ingrates

Joseph Fatula wrote:

>From: "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>
>Subject: Ear-grating ingrates (was: Re: The phrase 'I'd like...')
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>>Christophe écrit:
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>>>En réponse à Pablo David Flores
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>>>>I have a question for Spanish-speakers (L1 and otherwise)
>>>>about the subjunctive and the conditional: is it common to
>>>>substitute one for the other? In my dialect it's become
>>>>increasingly common to hear "si" + conditional instead of
>>>>"si" + subjunctive. It really grates on my ears, especially
>>>>when supposedly educated people profer such syntax. ;)
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>My Spanish is L2 (or thereabouts), but I've never actually studied it, so I
>don't know which forms are referred to by "conditional" and "subjunctive" in
>Spanish.  If I were to say something like "If I had a car...", I'd probably
>do "Si tendria un carro...".
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Si tuviera/tuviese (subjunctive);  tendría (conditional)

David Barrow