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Article #545Re: Election Speech Joke
From: Alex Braden
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:19
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:19
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"David Garvin" <kendal@SPAM.THIS.nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:3CEACDDC.FA329E98@SPAM.THIS.nbnet.nb.ca... > > > Then he should say "I am glad to see so many people here to hear my > > address. Of course the crowd would be twice as big if I were hung." > > Notice that the last clause is a subjunctive since, by his own > > admission, it is a condition contrary to fact. > > -- > True; however, it IS a high school crowd, so the occurance of proper > grammatical use of the subjuntive case is probably rare (including in > the teacher's bar...er...lounge!) :-) > Cheers! > > -- > David Garvin > Oromocto, NB Hahaha... the funny part is that my English teacher this year is the same one I had last year, and last year, we read a short story about a man who was hanged. My English teacher got into a little debate about how dumb it is that you can't say "hung". I think the word "hanged" sounds pretty stupid myself, but my teacher was like "Alex, 'hung' has been used in its other context for 150 years or more, it just isn't used to describe a hanging..." And don't worry, you are quite right. My high school crowd really wouldn't fully appreciate the above mentioned subjective clause, but I'm pretty sure a couple of the English teachers at school would definitely get a kick out of it... Alex
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1087d4,8edf68f077b41a09 X-Google-Attributes: gid1087d4,public X-Google-Thread: 107d29,8edf68f077b41a09 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d29,public X-Google-Thread: 111f08,8edf68f077b41a09 X-Google-Attributes: gid111f08,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-21 18:19:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!News.Dal.Ca!sapphire.mtt.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex Braden" <abraden@ns.sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: sci.space.history,alt.books.tom-clancy,can.community.military References: <_ZwG8.38$K23.38885@sapphire.mtt.net> <aceaa9$i89$1@paris.btinternet.com> <5157d2$102030.af@parl5.parl.gc.ca> <3CEABB08.FBFD34C6@SPAM.THIS.nbnet.nb.ca> <3CEAC201.CF463940@yourfinger.home.com> <3CEACDDC.FA329E98@SPAM.THIS.nbnet.nb.ca> Subject: Re: Election Speech Joke Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <ZmCG8.84$K23.61225@sapphire.mtt.net> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:19:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.205.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mpoweredpc.net X-Trace: sapphire.mtt.net 1022030393 142.177.205.131 (Tue, 21 May 2002 22:19:53 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:19:53 ADT Organization: MPowered-Subscriber