From wikipedia:-When I was a kid I went to college in Boston (where there are over a hundred 4-year degree-granting institutions by the way). I majored in English, and to make ends meet I drove a cab at night.
This guy gets into my cab and asks to be taken to the airport. He was in town for business and he’s leaving. Then he says to me,
“I was kinda busy this trip, and there are some things I didn’t get to try. Where do you suppose I could have got scrod around here?”
I thought for a second, then I said,
“You know, I’ve been driving this cab for three years now and I must have heard that question a thousand times, but that’s the first time anyone’s asked it in the pluperfect subjunctive.”
JudyAz almost 8 years ago
From wikipedia:-When I was a kid I went to college in Boston (where there are over a hundred 4-year degree-granting institutions by the way). I majored in English, and to make ends meet I drove a cab at night.
This guy gets into my cab and asks to be taken to the airport. He was in town for business and he’s leaving. Then he says to me,
“I was kinda busy this trip, and there are some things I didn’t get to try. Where do you suppose I could have got scrod around here?”
I thought for a second, then I said,
“You know, I’ve been driving this cab for three years now and I must have heard that question a thousand times, but that’s the first time anyone’s asked it in the pluperfect subjunctive.”
neverenoughgold almost 8 years ago
Now I know what this abomination to English grammar is called…