The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!