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Subject: Re: if that be the case
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:01:51 +1200
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"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>
> First person says
> "They act that way in order to feel important."
>
> I reply:
> "So? Even if that be the case, if they have some need to feel more
> important than they already feel, you can be grateful you don't have
> that need."
>
> How do you all take "..if that be the case"?
>
> time to think about it....
> x
> I used it because it's the subjunctive, and iiuc it makes the
> if-clause even more conditional, more nearly contrary to fact, than
> "if that is the case".
>
> A) Am I right?
>
I would stick with 'if that is the case'.
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