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[noveldevice]

Dear Internet Malaprops,

If you "would just assume" followed by a dependent clause, it means that you are only taking it for granted in the subjunctive. If you "just assume" followed by a complementary verb, YOU DO NOT JUST ASSUME. YOU WOULD "JUST AS SOON".

Please get it right. You sound like a fool.

Signed,
Novel

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Here, here!

[drcuriosity]

Case and point.

[heatermcca.livejournal.com]

*locks and lodes*

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

It's a doggy-dog world out there.

[heatermcca.livejournal.com]

And that won't change: you can cuss bout it tell ewer read in the face.