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From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: English (was: Volatile declaration in C++)
Message-ID: <1989Oct18.185436.11100@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 18 Oct 89 18:54:36 GMT
References: <42718@sgi.sgi.com> <4176@pegasus.ATT.COM> <2441@munnari.oz.au> <8237@bunker.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
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In article <8237@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
:In article <2441@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
:>In article <4176@pegasus.ATT.COM>, psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
:>> And the multitudes ... did sayest, "Huh?"
:
:>English again:  "sayest" is second-person singular present indicative.
:
:Not only that, but it should be the auxiliary which is inflected:
:"Thou didst say," for example.
:
:Gary Samuelson


so, in 3rd person,
	And the multitudes ... did say, "Huh?"

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