and speaking of English "subjunctives"...

[hw gray]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> as if what he were doing matters


"..._moves_ ... as if what he _is_ doing matters"


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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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