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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: PIN =/= PINK !
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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 11:22:21 -0500
References: <4u996o$bfq@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz> <3208965D.3F32@ieee.org> <3208B045.203F@eurocontrol.fr> <4uae6s$ibd@bone.think.com> <4ucntb$9qt@news.third-wave.com>
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In article <4ucntb$9qt@news.third-wave.com>, dvanecek@third-wave.com wrote:

> I judge the use of the indicative mood in conditional clauses 
> substandard, dialect, or careless, and should none of those effects
> be intended, simply provocative. However, I am not shocked. Would that
> I were!

If that's what you think, you judge a great number of entirely correct
sentences as wrong.

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

