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Russians create artificial human brain

maxwell mmmaxwell at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 17 06:08:32 EST 2001


Charles R Martin <crmartin at indra.com> wrote in message
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> Martin Sewell <M.Sewell at cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:41:32 GMT, mark edward hardwidge
> > <hardwidg at ux10.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >In rec.arts.sf.science David Ehrens <nospam at nospam.net> wrote:
> > >> Most journalists would have used the subjunctive, "were".
> > >
> > > I'm kind of stupid.  Could you remind me of exactly when we
> > >use "was" and when we use "were"?  Some cases are obvious to me,
but
> > >not all.
> >
> > "If I was a hopeless cad, I apologize."
> > "If I were a hopeless cad, I would never apologize."
>
> See, native English speakers know the difference.
>
> Now, what's a "cad" again? ;-)

It is what students at Harvard must show, to be served beah.

-d.max










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