[IAEP] OT - subjunctive (was Re: Funding - Full-time educator needed for Sugarlabs)

[Martin Dengler]

Were[1,2] I a contributor to past on-topic discussions, I would feel
less mean in seconding (what I think is) your response[3] and say that
alt.usage.english is over there ----> [4] and that one might at least
constructively nitpick with useful info/links[5] (though there was a
smiley!).  And were I of the same mind as Maughaum[6], I would be
happy to hear that the subjunctive mood doesn't really exist[7] so
perhaps we needn't even have this discussion.  It may be that
designing a constructivist lesson about a verb mood that doesn't exist
would require some notable example of recursion.

Martin

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive#Demise_of_the_subjunctive.3F
2. http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxsubjun.html
3. http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1797.html
4. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/topics
5. http://alt-usage-english.org/eusitesearch.html
6. http://www.englishforums.com/English/ConfusedWithVerbs/2/zkpzd/Post.htm#471258
7. http://alt-usage-english.org/subjunctive_supplement.html

PS.  Yeah, if it were not so late here you probably wouldn't be
deleting this message now.

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:03:41PM -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
> If I was in a good mood, I might do a good deed ....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
> To: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
> Cc: its.an.education.project <its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:40:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding - Full-time educator needed for Sugarlabs
> 
> On May 27, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> > We need someone who is thinking about the problems of teaching long  
> > division in a constructionist way and the subjunctive tense in  
> > English.
> 
> 
> The subjunctive is not a tense. :)
> 
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> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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