Modal muddle?

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:08 PM +0000 6/25/09, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>Make that "might as well have"?

if you insist; in empathy with my buddy Sanford, I was employing
style indirect libre

LH

>Larry Horn wrote :
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>>Except that the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through South Carolina.
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail
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>And when the poor guy realized that, he figured he may as well fly to
>Argentina.  (I suppose there must be some citings/sightings of "Don't
>cry for me Argentina" in the write-ups
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