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Posted by rlpowell on Fri 12 of Nov, 2004 10:41 GMT posts: 14214

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:14PM -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
> and (we often say) real conditionals are subjunctive. But this
> seems to be a genuinely truth functional use.

Uhh, if "My hair is blue, unless my eyes are bad" doesn't imply that
the second clause is subjunctive (the speaker doesn't actually think
his eyes are bad), you and I speak very different dialects of
English.

-Robin