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# Would it?
Are you sure?

edit: i thought magic was (gramatically at least) seen as a singular, therefore should be 'was'

I'm happys to be provered wrongly about my grammaring though.
(, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:33, archived)
# pretty much
www.bartleby.com/64/C001/061.html

"According to traditional rules, you use the subjunctive to describe an occurrence that you have presupposed to be contrary to fact: if I were ten years younger, if America were still a British Colony."
(, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:34, archived)
# Feh.
can't be arsed reading all that, i'll take your word for it :-D
(, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:35, archived)
# I have indicated the relevant sentence!
(, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:37, archived)
# Oh yes
so you have...

*runs away looking silly*
(, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:39, archived)