Mixed Conditionals

You're joking, Jack, aren't you? I've seen your posts, and your English is certainly good enough to answer your own question, isn't it?

You know that there's no tense with "had have" in English!

If these are not correct, why? What do they mean?
1. If my skills in estimating and managing IT projects had have been that bad, I would have fired myself a few times...

Perfectly correct but not as written, Jack. This is a phonological aspect that occurs in the spoken language. It's always a contracted form,

"hadda"; If I hadda been there,

Yet another viewpoint.

9. How does one explain the common usage of “If it hadda happened yesterday”—which has formal parallels in French and some kinds of German. There is a scientific answer.

http://www.orlapubs.com/AL/L86.html

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There's a 'scientific answer' for scabies. That doesn't make it something you want to catch.

For further strange thoughts on 'had have': Would have.....Had have....???

MrP

I'm very sorry. I had a typo. Please excuse me.

http://mthobby.pcperfect.com/ch601/chconstpages.htm

If these are not correct, why? What do they mean?
1. If my skills in estimating and managing IT projects had been that bad, I would have fired myself a few times...

Hello Jack

Don't worry about typos. They take us down some interesting byways.

#1 is correct. The speaker is saying, jocularly: 'bad IT management skills >>> firing myself. However, I did not fire myself. Therefore my IT management skills weren't bad'.

#2 is an incorrect version of #1. In your 'if' statement, the 'if' sets the condition for the second clause

Re: scabies.

Oh sweet Jesus! I'm rolling on the floor! I have got tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. You are outdoing yourself with each new post, Mr. P.

JTT: I finally got around to reading the article. The author himself calls it a "proposal" in one place, and in another, an attempt at an explanation. At one point he suggests that the phenomenon in question happens for some reason or another.

Any of us on this forum can and do speculate in this way, propose explanations, and realize that certain linguistic phenomena happen for some

Let me point out the very appreciable difference between my postings and yours, Jim or Mr P's. I gather you're ROTFL because of the wonderful, insightful sources that Mr P has pulled up on language. How are yours better; judging from the following, not a whole lot.

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So if you put 'would have' in your 'if' clause, you're trying both to set a condition with 'if', and to express the consequences of a condition with 'would have'. This is not possible.

And the following three sentences- three of millions of possibilities - prove Mr P's statement to be untrue

1. If he would have brought the beer, I would have brought the