Re: OT: Super OT: Re: CHAT: JRRT
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 6, 2004, 17:14 |
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> If your initial claim about Tolkien not being worth reading had been supplied
> with a similar disclaimer, we'd never had this discussion. N
Interesting verbal construction there: "we'd never had". Was that just
a typo (for "we'd never have had", which is short for "we would never
have had"), or a grammar difference popping up? "We had never had", while
a perfectly fine indicative tense, is not usable in that position, which
requires the conditional (at least in my 'lect).
-Mark
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