Would May 13, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant , trackbackTalking head: “I would tend to agree.”
Oh *would* you? When would this happen? Under what conditions? This means you disagree now but later, under some unspecified conditions, you *would*? Would you agree or would you just tend to agree? If the statement you are making now is conditional upon some unspecified condition, why are you on TV now? Why don’t you come back then?
I would tend to hate this use of the conditional. It would be just a lame, cliched way to sound reasonable and undogmatic, by hedging and equivocating, only not really. I would tend to discourage it, were the right conditions satisfied.
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