Don't let's

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Jan 17 04:01:04 UTC 2008


Finite. No. BB

James Harbeck wrote:
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>> I'm not sure what you mean by contractions being temporal, so no.
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> I probably grabbed the wrong word off the top of my head. I meant not
> infinitive, basically.
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> James Harbeck.
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