question for light or muttley, or anyone

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muttley600 said:
By the way dipshit, you have described me in the past tense, just to correct you it should be the present tense, especially as you conclude your sentence structure in the present tense. Beside that, I don't care what the fuck you think, and that stands in the future tense.
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Just to be pedantic, "didn't" is probably about equally correct here. It isn't describing you in the past tense. It is describing the action (caring) in the past subjunctive and saying that if that action (caring) had not been true at one time in the past, the current action (defending) would not be continuing to occur now.

That said, from a purely stylistic parallelism POV, I agree with you. It should probably have been the present subjunctive "don't" instead of the past subjunctive. That doesn't mean it is incorrect, though, IMHO.

:D
 
dgatwood said:
Just to be pedantic, "didn't" is probably about equally correct here. It isn't describing you in the past tense. It is describing the action (caring) in the past subjunctive and saying that if that action (caring) had not been true at one time in the past, the current action (defending) would not be continuing to occur now.

That said, from a purely stylistic parallelism POV, I agree with you. It should probably have been the present subjunctive "don't" instead of the past subjunctive. That doesn't mean it is incorrect, though, IMHO.

:D
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Be honest: how much time did you spend reading and re-reading that post to make sure there were no errors? :p
 
You boys have way too much time on your hands. I didn't start this spellfest and I also declared that I can't spell to save my life. I do do grammar tho!!!

Anyway as I said, apologies offered and accepted I'd prefer to leave it at that.


dgatwood, I stand by don't , I still don't give a.......well you get the point.:p
 
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