From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 10:56:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3F737B856 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA84488; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:56:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:56:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: chat@freebsd.org, "Thomas M. Sommers" Subject: Re: BSDCon East In-Reply-To: <20000411195029.00602@techunix.technion.ac.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > There are many, many complex syntactical constructions which are > difficult for a foreigner to understand and master. Consider, for instance, > just off the top of my head, "many a X", or "Would that Y". Such I agree with most of this. English syntax is decidedly odd. The construction "Would that Y X", though, is perfectly normal subjunctive usage. Nevermind that, were I to quiz my cow-orkers, 80% of them wouldn't know that. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message