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PinkChip
I several times read "better then" instead of "better than" in some blackjack books. Also, I am a bit astonished to read "If I/he was ..." rather than "If I/he were..." in native-speaker texts so often. I learned that subjunctive goes as "If I/you/he/we/you/they were" for every grammatic person, and that "I was" is suitable for simple past tense only. Is "was" correct for subjunctive, too, or is it slang?
The subjunctive tense is alive and well with careful writers. Sadly, that excludes the vast majority of many blackjack forum members. I often marvel at how so many people who we know are mathematically gifted can be so lacking in the basic essentials of their native language. Must be a right-brain, left-brain thing.
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