Re: Oughtification of Section 5

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 04:39:57 CST


In <20010117163812.A26089@juanita.tertius.net.au> Thorfinn <thorfinn@tertius.net.au> writes:

>PS: Charles - I should've brought it up earlier, but there are quite
>a few places where "Ought" is being used where the language would flow
>much better with an "Ought to". "ought" on its own tends to be
>somewhat awkward, much more so than "should". IMO, "Ought to" sounds
>better.

Eh? I do use "Ought to" in the actual texts I propose. Have you some
example where I omitted to do so?

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