I'm sorry, but this is the most ridiculous conversation I've ever witnessed. Chanukah is the Jewish winter holiday that has some parallels to Christmas -- it happens around the same time, and involves and exchange of gifts as well as a celebration

I am still stuck on the subjunctive. I think that I have a pretty firm grasp of the conditional, and I understand when the subjunctive is used to express something that is not yet true ('I wish you were here'). But what about a phrase like the one

Although the relationship between language and culture is complex I don't think that it is a chicken and egg thing. Of course our thoughts are influenced by our language. See Ferdinand de Saussere or any later post-structuralist theorist who tell

I'm sorry, but aren't you guys talking about the conditional, not the subjunctive. I thought that the subjunctive was a formal way of speaking: >> We recommend that all staff acknowledge receipt of this memo. >> They insisted that we go