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Re:I Owe It All to Community College by sneak on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @07:03PM (#8890063)
> and wish this was true.

*were

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood

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Re:I Owe It All to Community College by pervycreeper on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @07:48PM (#8890228)
Using the conditional mood that way is common in American English. Hardly a strict error.
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Re:I Owe It All to Community College by dfar1 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @09:18PM (#8890539)
When expressing a wish, use "were".
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Re:I Owe It All to Community College by dllthomas on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:02AM (#8891551)
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3038
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