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Re: Necessity of Conculture?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, May 30, 1999, 21:33
Tom Wier scripsit:

> Interesting. Is that really gone from even standard British English? Things like > "The Judge ordered that the man be put in confinement" and
I'm told that this comes out "The judge ordered that the man should be put in confinement", with unstressed "should". See my earlier playing-Ophelia example.
> "If *I* were a lumberjack..."
That's the past subjunctive (or subjunctive II in German terminology), and it is under pressure everywhere, as you say. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.