At 02:53 PM 3/29/00 +0000, you wrote: >"What happens is the only thing that happens." >I'm with you. >That "only thing that could have" has stuck in my conscience like a fishbone >for more than a year. > >-Chris Weaver ******************************* I love to split hairs. And being grammatically correct is not one of my virtues. (Politically correct neither) So. If it didn't happen -- it couldn't happen -- just then. Sometime later -- maybe. In the past -- possibly. But right then it didn't, and therefore couldn't. Not possible. You want it a different way? Sounds fine to me. Especially when you get it into German. Any people who split a verb between the front and back of a long sentence which should have been a paragraph -- making it impossible to decipher for folks who usually keep their verbs all in one place -- can certainly have it any way they want. If for no other reason, I for one will never figure it out. So carry on. Seriously, the words really aren't all that important -- Opening space is.
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