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Hello, everyone.Would you please take a look at the following text:"Oil was not a major player in Canada until the large strike in Leduc, Alberta, in 1947. After that first fortuitous find, more oil was discovered across western Canada and a booming oil industry began.Natural gas was also discovered, and between the two a small boom occurred. In more recent times, oil and .. ."

Enoon · Accepted Answer

between prep., 5a. "By the combined effort or effect of: Between them they succeeded." (AHD)

boom noun 2. "A time of economic prosperity." (AHD)

Surfer · Answer

enoonbetween prep., 5a. "By the combined effort or effect of: Between them they succeeded." (AHD)boom noun 2. "A time of economic prosperity." (AHD)

Thank you, enoon.

However, the part of my post which includes the question is missing.. .

Enoon · Answer

What is your question?

Surfer · Answer

enoonWhat is your question?

You already answered that.

I thought I'd just let that be known in hopes that someone concerned(related/involved?) will read it.., as that was not the first time that a post of mine appear with part of it missing.. .

CalifJim · Answer

Surferthat was not the first time that a post of mine appeared with part of it missing.

Could this be due to some text formatting feature you used? Occasionally parts of my posts are missing because of brackets around text, for example. [ ... ]

CJ

Surfer · Answer

CalifJim Surferthat was not the first time that a post of mine appeared with part of it missing.Could this be due to some text formatting feature you used? Occasionally parts of my posts are missing because of brackets around text, for example. [ ... ]CJ

I recall being once told that hyphens (-) may be the cause, however, it seems to be a random issue.., I'm not sure.

About appeared: Say I wanted to express the issue as a subjunctive fact rather than be indicative about it, would that be OK then?

CalifJim · Answer

SurferAbout appeared: Say I wanted to express the issue as a subjunctive fact rather than be indicative about it, would that be OK then?

No, I'm afraid not.

That's not a grammatical context in which the subjunctive is permitted. It's

the [first / second / ... / last] time that + indicative [I went / we saw it / they won / it appeared / ...]

So it's:

That was not the first time that a post of mine appeared with part of it missing.

CJ

Edit: I'm not saying you'll never find the subjunctive in that position. You might find it in something written in 1500!

Surfer · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

Historically, the word meant strictly "happenstance" or, by "chance". Before the early 1900's, the word has been used more like a similarly sounding one: fortunate. You might say that the language corrupted itself in that using this word in its traditional way may leave some more informed about the word and what intended by its use. More commonly, it appears that the word has become synonymous with good luck. The language, by misusing the word enough, has actually changed it original meaning to the point where most use that as one implying good fortune.

Surfer first fortuitous

In this context it appears that instead of being redundant and implying that the find was the "first fortunate/lucky find", the use of the word here is in the more traditional sense, that is, it was by chance, which makes more sense. I gather that this might be sourced from an older document, since it used the traditional definition of the word.

PJ

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