[quote=donald perry"Spoke" is past tense, but I said "would have", which is future tense.
Bzzzt! "Would have" is the conditional past tense. Future tense is "will (do)". [/quote]
Bzzzt! Counterfactual conditional. Hypothetically a condition that is known to be false, or presented as unlikely, and here on two counts.
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The Mohonk Mountain House and the Mohonk Preserve have done a great job protecting the environment thus far, but ... it's all down hill from here
http://youtu.be/9AU8fMo8v4k.