Past Subjunctive

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> What does one say about "what if the Buddha would have dated", or
> "things I wish I would have been told"?

FWIW:

"What if the Buddha had dated?"

"Things I wish I would have been told"
is fine for me as it stands.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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