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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Paul S Person  schrieb:   
      
   > No doubt it reflects my age and education, but, in that case, "will"   
   > would be what you want -- for second and third person -- and "shall"   
   > would be a command to do what you ordered.   
      
   When I started learning English in the late 1970s, I learned that   
   the future tense of the first person singular was "I shall".   
   The books we were using were probably a bit dated, the text   
   still had something about flying with BOAC.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)