and speaking of English "subjunctives"...

[Jonathan Lighter]

And I guess there's "depack," as in Chopra.

JL


On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Unless he were doing nothing at all?
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> Joel
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> At 11/8/2013 11:12 PM, hw gray wrote:
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> >On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > > as if what he were doing matters
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> >"..._moves_ ... as if what he _is_ doing matters"
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