Past Subjunctive

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 3 14:31:01 UTC 2012


"what if the Buddha would have dated"
He married his sixteen-year-old cousin, Yasodhara, and had a kid. As the
prince of Kapilavastu for 29 years, he probably had a few broads on the
side, too. I don't get the contrary-to-fact implication here.

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