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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: would
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.030749.21961@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:07:49 GMT
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- All of a sudden I'm noticing people stating things with "would"
- that I've also heard in the indicative, as in:
-
- When are you going?
- That would be tomorrow.
-
- Who's speaking?
- That would be John.
-
- Where's the game?
- That would be Mile High Stadium.
-
- While this sort of thing has always been around a little, it seems
- a new thing to use it as frequently as I've heard of late.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- Sally with ally, yea, ye,
- Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
-