On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Luke Palmer wrote: > Luke Palmer writes: > > Hi Jos, > > > > Jos Visser writes: > > > Mightn't it be (is this English by the way? :-) a good idea to use > > > LANGUAGES.STATUS also for maintaining track of parrot-generating > > > compilers that are not in the main tree? > > > > Yeah, that's English. "Mightn't" is an archaic word which is sometimes > > fun to use. Saying "it be" is using the subjunctive mood in "to be", > > also seldom used, but you use it correctly here. > > > > I just learned about the English subjunctive a little while ago; it has > > greatly improved my understanding of those wierd constructs involving > > "might" and "lest". > > There it goes again! That was *supposed* to be off-list! > > Well, now the entirety of the internals list can learn about English > grammar. Hoo-ray.
You mean "American Grammar". I'm pretty sure it's not at all archaic English Grammar.... Dan