Usage question - subjunctive mood? (WAS: anyone looking for a writer?)

Greg. Eckrich GWEckrich at wowway.com
Sun Apr 7 09:30:16 PDT 2013


Mostly lurker here, but, yes, you are correct, at least as far as American Standard English is (er, was?) concerned.  

On 7Apr2013, at 10:34 AM, VLM TechSubs wrote:

> I hope this isn’t considered too “off topic”.
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> Perhaps things have changed as our American English language devolves all around us, but … might we not better say “if I WERE looking” rather than “if I WAS looking”? That is, is this not an untrue condition or wish, therefore correctly expressed in the subjunctive mood?
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> Serious question … If I’m “behind the curve” here, I’d like to know!
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> Thanks,
> Elchanan
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 12:57 PM
> To: Rick Quatro
> Cc: FrameUsers List
> Subject: Re: anyone looking for a writer?
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> Seconding all of Rick's comments, with the bonus that if I was looking for a job or a writer who was better than average with FM, this would be a pretty obvious place to browse or recruit. Just the fact that someone would post on this list semi-qualifies them... 
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> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:
> This seems like a great place for this kind of post. You get an occasional posts from people offering FrameMaker jobs and those looking for FrameMaker jobs. It's all good. The list is fairly low-volume anyway, and you can easily delete any posts you consider inappropriate. Besides, if I was looking to hire someone, I would want to know that someone as qualified as Jess is looking for a job.
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> Rick
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> Rick Quatro
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> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Cal Callahan
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 12:42 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: anyone looking for a writer?
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> Much as I wish you success, I don't believe this is an appropriate posting here. The list would soon be filled by pleas from people like you and me who are looking for work.
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> cal
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