[lojban] Re: Japanese has no subjunctive??

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:27:39PM -0400, Craig wrote:
> >>     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)
> .
> 
> Notice that English fails to use a present subjunctive construction in many
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<technical>

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

The reason you couldn't see the rest is that your MTA took that
stray period, which just happened to be on a single line by itself,
as the end of the mail.

/me chortles.

Dude, get a better MTA.  Or MUA; can't be sure.

</technical>

-Robin


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