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
