From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T05:13:11+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

On 9/28/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that it's going to change, and it's all water long under the bridge, but....
>
> Those predicates are usually part of a larger expression.
>
> We wouldn't say
>
> Give me my nine-iron, if does my bag have my nine-iron.

...if it's true that my bag does have my nine-iron

"has", "starts" and so on eliminate the 'be' verb in favor of
complicating (by conjugating) the original verb. Having lived as an
English speaker and studied other languages that both conjugate and do
not conjugate, I have to say I strongly prefer the latter. And before
you say it, yes we have to conjugate the verb 'to be' above, but
that's all we'd ever have to conjugate.

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