The Green Eggs Report for June 2015 is now available. Last month 69 people made 758 posts containing 114 links. See past reports.
5 events have new trivia: BBU16, 5th European Juggling Convention, 4th European Juggling Convention, 11th European Juggling Convention, 6th European Juggling Convention.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
I just noticed, the green eggs report doesn't show the amount of new topics created in the month. Might be an interesting number to hold next to the amount of posts!
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Except that this is not a sentence... Right? (non-native here)
Mike Moore - - Parent #
For conditional statements, shouldn't "were" be used, even in the singular case?
https://www.grammarly.com/handbook/sentences/conditional-sentences/6/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were-in-the-u/
(Either that or I'm missing a reference to something)
I am missing the reference too, 1729 is an interesting number according to Srinivasa Ramanujan [1] but I am not sure why this is relevant to Marvin (but then I have not read the Marvin's adventure books or seen the films - just heard part of the radio series).
I think you are right about the were in the conditional case — unless there is a special Marvin exception.
The reasons are not specific to Marvin, but rather to the view of interesting or uninteresting numbers, which my view of Marvin says he might care about.
Yes. I have it on unknown authority that were is here one of the few (only?) cases of the subjunctive in English. I don't know if that's true.
As far as I'm away, "If it was," would be wrong here, and I must say that I had expected most pedants to agree.
I offer a full and unashamed apology to ^Tom_ for mistakenly thinking there was a fault in his post and thank Mike for helping bringing this to light.
Cedric Lackpot - - Parent #
Oi! Pedant! If you were found out then you should apologise to the nice gentleman right now!
A pedant losing a nitpick is every bit as delicious as cat surrendering its dignity. Good work Mike.
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