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Subject:Re: 'might' vs. 'may' From:Michael LaTorra <mikel -at- HUEY -dot- ACCUGRAPH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 14 Oct 1994 11:48:13 MDT
Thanks for the elaboration and examples. I might have said
that "may" is not just a different tense of "might".
But in the context of the original examples, these
alternatives seem to be "distinctions that don't make a
difference" as the saying goes.
Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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