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"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down."

Correct/not weird
2 (22.2%)
Incorrect/weird
7 (77.8%)

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Offline Jonathon

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« on: February 01, 2007, 11:13:33 AM »
What say ye, O citizens of the Cactus?
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 11:53:28 AM »
"Stand up and be counted" is a quote.  I'm not going to parse it as if it is not.  The whole quote stands as a unit.   So, weird as it seems, I'm going to give it my seal of approval.
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2007, 11:58:17 AM »
Ah. For some reason it didn't register that the speaker was working a quote into his statement (awkwardly, though). I was trying to figure out if it was an incorrect use of the subjunctive or something else.
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2007, 12:39:30 PM »
I thought it was "stand up to be counted".  "Stand up and be counted" sounds not as courageous.
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2007, 02:10:37 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 07:18:24 PM »
Perhaps, but not with a conditional shoved in front of it. That's atrocious.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 09:14:41 PM »
It may be a quote, but it's wrong! :pirate:  
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