and speaking of English "subjunctives"...

[Joel S. Berson]

Unless he were doing nothing at all?

Joel

At 11/8/2013 11:12 PM, hw gray wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > as if what he were doing matters
>
>
>"..._moves_ ... as if what he _is_ doing matters"
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