Make up your mind!

[Wilson Gray]

"could _of_ and should _have_ been better"

Or do people interpret "could of" and "should have" as distinct
syntacto-semantic structures, since the writer presumably wrote what he did
on purpose and not by mistake?

Youneverknow.
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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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