Past Subjunctive

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 4, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> What if Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare?
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> That's a separate question.
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> JL

Precisely.

LH
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> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 7/4/2012 06:10 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>> ... Compare also "(What) if Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare",
>>> which might be uttered by an Oxonian, vs. "(What) if Shakespeare
>>> hadn't written Shakespeare", as uttered by a counterfactual historian.
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>> What if Shakspere hadn't written Shakespeare?
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>> Joel
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