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1. バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;; (shmibs@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu)'s status on Wednesday, 25-May-2022 04:52:24 JST バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;

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   • Bartosz Milewski
   @BartoszMilewski "since we've mandated there should be no arrows" sounds natural to me here, though with a "that" is also find
   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 25-May-2022 04:52:25 JST Bartosz Milewski

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     I changed it to: "Since we have mandated that there be no arrows..." Better?

   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 25-May-2022 04:52:27 JST Bartosz Milewski

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     I think it's called the "mandative subjunctive." It's possible to have arrows to Void, but I demand there be no such thing.

   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 25-May-2022 04:52:28 JST Bartosz Milewski

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     Since English is not my native tongu, I had to learn its grammar the hard way. In particular, I learned to use the subjunctive, which is probably not used in common speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive

   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 25-May-2022 04:52:29 JST Bartosz Milewski

     Is my usage of subjunctive not grammatical? "we assume there *be*" has a different meaning than "we assume there *are*".