19 Jul
2014
19 Jul
'14
2:16 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
It's "lay" because "if" takes a subjunctive! --rwg
I had to go look this up. I don't believe that before this I'd ever heard someone use the present subjunctive correctly. Past and future subjunctive I hear all the time, but never present. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com