Re: many and varied questions

 --- Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> wrote:

> Actually, I think "might" is fast disappearing from
> English, due to the fact
> that for most of the time it's indistinguishable
> from "may". If you wanted
> to, I suppose you could say it's conditional, but
> since the verb is
> inherently conditional anyway, it's losing most of
> its semantic force. Why
> not just use "may"?
That's interesting. I can't recall ever having used
'may' except when I'm being 'correct' or odd; it can
always be replaced by 'can' or 'might'. I guess this
is all part of the divergence of English dialects,
isn't it?

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Tristan.

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