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Re: The phrase 'I'd like...'

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 23:40
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Pablo David Flores :
<snip>
> > Well, this awful and deplorable phenomenon doesn't > happen only in Spanish. > In French, the indicative imperfect after "si" (use > where Spanish would use > the subjunctive imperfect) is sometimes replaced by > the conditional, which > really grates on my ears too. It's not even a > dialectical phenomenon, just > something like a fashion trend, which annoys me even > more. > > Christophe Grandsire.
Kind of like "alot" in English. Deplorable and very annoying. ;-) <wink wink> --gary

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