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The shortest sentence you can build an entire alternate universe inside.
means A small conjunction that opens a condition — introducing something that might be true, might happen, or might never be, and setting up what follows from it.
from From Old English 'gif,' of uncertain deeper origin — it's a word so old and so basic to Germanic languages that its trail goes cold before it reaches any tidy root. Related forms sit quietly in other Germanic tongues, but nobody can hand you a clean ancestor further back. It has simply always been doing this job: holding a door open between what is and what might be.
- size
- Two letters, infinite consequences
- grammar role
- Turns certainty into negotiation
- programming
- The first decision your code ever makes
- regret fuel
- Powers every sentence that starts with should have