Re: New version of nm-step2

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:58:17AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I am Japanese who typically has no sense for tense and plurals :-)
> 
> But, I do not understand ...
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:05:57PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> ...
> >       <li>As a last resort, if you didn't received any offers for a
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 	few weeks after registering, you can send e-mail to 
> 
> I thought
> 
>        <li>As a last resort, if you haven't received any offers for a
> or
> 
>        <li>As a last resort, if you didn't receive any offers for a
> 
> are the only acceptable forms in my Japanese junior high school days.
> 
> Hm.... but reading its context, this may be one of the funny subjunctive
> sentence which is specially designed to fool non-natives like me.  I
> prefer simpler form such as:
> 
>        <li>As a last resort, if you don't receive any offers for a

Yes. :)

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