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the pedant's rule is that "I shall X" expresses confident expectation
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Is there anyone here besides me who remembers Douglas MacArthur's famous "I shall return"? When I was a kid (out in the boondocks) it was common that people would substitute "I shall return" for a simple "I'll be back" and the standard retort was "OK, MacArthur".
For the younguns:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarth...cspeech02.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarth...cspeech03.html
I don't think he had a speechwriter with him.
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