Re: Subjunctive?

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> The restrictions to worlds where most people don't have
> a million dollars was so as to avoid worlds where the inflation
> in the US had been something like in Argentina, so that
> everyone would have a million dollars, and it would not be
> enough either to make you rich or buy you a yacht.

Line of dialogue from a mercifully forgotten post-nuclear-holocaust
novel: "Oh, he wanted to give me a million dollars to go up to
his room with him, but I said nothing doing."

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