A certain guy is wondering about a cooperation with someone else: If someone else were doing this, would I be in the least bit interested in going to see/hear/work with them?
--- I suppose that the part: If someone else were doing this refers to the other party, the one he's going to cooperate with? And then he's thinking whether he would feel like going to see with them, talk (I think "hear" means talking to them here?) to them and work with them? What do you think?
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I think 'someone else' refers to any other person except the party he is actually going to work with. 'Hear' means 'hear'.
— Mister Micawber
I think 'someone else' refers to any other person except the party he is actually going to work with.
'Hear' means 'hear'.
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But what does it actually mean: I wouldn't feel like going to hear them? To me it means I wouldn't like to go there and listen to what they want to say.
So in your view it means: If someone else (but not me, some other person accepting the order) were working on this project ...