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RE: Subjunctive?
- Subject: RE: Subjunctive?
- From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:03:42 -0000
C.D. Wright (though Outlook claims it is from Pycyn):
> I feel that I have a good grasp of the majority of the
> grammar, but my vocabulary is only expanding slowly.
> As a result, I can't find a way of saying:
>
> If I had a million pounds/dollars/kroner
> then I'd be rich.
>
> I guess what I want to say is:
>
> Regardless of the truth value of A,
> (A => B) is a valid assertion.
>
> Where: A = ( I have a million million pounds )
> and : B = ( mi ricfu )
>
>
> Yes?
Isn't that {gu}?
But anyway it doesn't work, does it, because it is truth-conditionally
equivalent to just {B or not A}.
A B or not A
T T T
T F F
F T T
F F F
--And.