<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 08/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Brodbeck</b> <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> I even get upset when I hear the Joan Osborne song, "One of Us" (and<br>> not just because I'm hearing the song) because the chorus line,<br>
> "What if<br>> God was one of us?" fails to use the subjunctive mood--which is dying<br>> away due to the "evolving language" folks out there.<br><br>The one that really ticks me off is 'Ironic.' Nothing in that song
<br>is actually ironic.</blockquote><div><br>Indeed<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg</a></div></div><br>-- <br>Paul Mason