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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!news
  3. From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
  4. Subject: Re: would
  5. Message-ID: <SLAGLE.92Jul30154619@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
  6. Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
  7. In-reply-to: Tom Christiansen's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:07:49 GMT
  8. Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
  9. Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
  10. References: <1992Jul30.030749.21961@news.eng.convex.com>
  11. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 22:46:23 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Jul30.030749.21961@news.eng.convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
  15.  
  16. > All of a sudden I'm noticing people stating things with "would"
  17. > that I've also heard in the indicative, as in:
  18.  
  19. > While this sort of thing has always been around a little, it seems 
  20. > a new thing to use it as frequently as I've heard of late.
  21.  
  22. I would think so.
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  25. Mark E. Slagle                                 PO Box 61059
  26. slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com                       Sunnyvale, CA   94088
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