Archaic Past Conditional

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CalifJim

#515475 Mon, 19 May 08 08:23 AM

badegine
would there be a linguistic term for such a substitution?

Not that I know of. Maybe we should make up our own term.

I nominate "shwouldiation".

I will return, for example, can be shwouldiated to I shall return. Smile

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