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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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I do indeed, if only for clarity's sake.There are times when using the right mood genuinely makes your sentence easier to understand. It's nothing snobbish, though; I remember a friend of mine at university who insisted on making a spoken distinction between the two, and on saying "They were" but "If only that 'wear' the case". He was generally thought of as a twat.
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.Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 22:07,
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This then-justifies your initial comment and I concede that my usage of "was" was ungainly, although I will defend my position by stating that "was" is interchangeable with "were" in the common vernacular in this case. Flimsy ground, thin ice, perhaps; yet many's the case won on a small point of interpretation.
As you was.
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Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 0:49,
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