[lojban] Re: Japanese has no subjunctive??

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> >>>     My wife reports that subjunctive grammar, e.g. if I had studied,
>> >>>     I would have done better on the test, are very difficult, since
>> >>>     none of this grammar is found in Japanese.
>> >>>
>> >>> If this is true, and I find it unlikely, how do the Japanese talk
>> >>> about subjunctives?  Or do they simply (and I find this
>> >>> unimaginable) not do so?
>>
>> >>Context is all.  See the Chinese example in
>> >>the Red Book, Chapter 13, examples 12.5 to 12.7
>>
>>(http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html#e12d5
>> )
>>
>> How very odd. I had some text here that didn't go through.
>>
>> Here it is again:

>This is the second time I've seen it.

That's funny. The first time I saw only the part of my mail that was quoted,
and not my response.

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