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Missing textMissing textPosted Jan 31, 2008 1:26 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Missing text by edschofield Parent article: LCA: The state of Debian The subjunctive tense is rapidly disappearing from English, just like the word "whom", which is mostly gone from American English by now.
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Missing text Posted Jan 31, 2008 8:34 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] British English too. Like `whom', it's at that `last stand of the dying feature' stage, being seen as pretentious and overly formal.
Missing text Posted Jan 31, 2008 14:17 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] The subjunctive tense Must... resist... pedantic... impulse.... AAARGH!!! You mean the subjunctive mood, of course....
Missing text Posted Jan 31, 2008 21:02 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Hah, and then there's the passive tense (where I'm not tense because I say things in a really non-aggressive manner, you know.) ;}}}} (sorry, I've lost my active voice, I have a cold)
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