On 11/12/18 17:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:22:56PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Dan Ritter wrote: >>> The English use it more than Americans do. >> >> In school it was a big deal to distinguish "will" and "shall". >> (I was very eager to forget the exact rules when nobody cared any more.) > > Americans (at least in my part of the country) never use "shall" at > all. To us, it simply sounds archaic. We'd expect it in the King James > Bible, or in certain kinds of fantasy literature. >
Not the bible, but pretty close: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |
