Quick Grammar Poll
Jun. 14th, 2007 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
X will would have y
What do you think of that verb construction?
And for those of you with a frame of reference, is that a reasonably accurate translation of Latinate future subjunctive tense?
Context: the Spanish words hubiere and hubieren, the singular and plural future subjunctive forms of haber and hay. Yes, i know the latter is a form of the former, but well, not everyone gets that.
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Date: 2007-06-14 05:36 am (UTC)The Wikipedia construction is "If X should Y..." Does that work for your example?
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Date: 2007-06-14 11:29 am (UTC)I'm going to hazard a guess that "You might could want to check on the cows." is ungrammatical to you also.
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Date: 2007-06-14 03:31 pm (UTC)I'm going to hazard a guess that "You might could want to check on the cows." is ungrammatical to you also.
Indeed. What's your native dialect? I don't think I've ever really been exposed to that way of speaking.
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:06 pm (UTC)I still find it hard to pronunce iron 'correctly', thoug I have learned to broaden the ar to ir, where that i is pronounce broadly as southern-style I. My stanard speech pattern is still notably Southern to people not from here, to the point that sometimes people in NYC and Boston have trouble understanding me.
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-15 05:49 pm (UTC)So... parts of Colorado, apparently? (Though it probably has more to do with knowing a lot of people whose speech is closer to written English than average.)
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Date: 2007-06-14 11:34 am (UTC)"X will would have y by tomorrow" looks much better.
Actually, it still looks a little odd, but it sounds ok. Maybe it's a verb form I use in spoken but not written language. On the other hand, I'm not sure how else I could express the concept in writing.
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Date: 2007-06-14 07:17 pm (UTC)Applepie will would have apples - (no that doesn't sound right)
Bob will would have died - (possibly)
Cars will would have flown - (sound ok in a sentance)
my 2 silly cents.
~Kody
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Date: 2007-06-14 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-14 07:24 pm (UTC)"By Tuesday I will have finished my college paper." ;-)