This year I'm doing linguistics, which is pretty interesting and useful though very hard to understand. For this class, we have to read loads of articles in order to get the meaning of the following lecture. The last one was about 'would' and was one of the most difficult ones (destined to lecturers or very advanced students speaking fluently the linguistics jargon). So I read it with some effort and, at the end of the article in question, I came across a corpus with supplementary examples. I quote the first example of the corpus: 'Question: do you ever fake orgasms? Answers: In the past I would do it to protect the man's ego and occasionally because he would be mad if I didn't have one [...] To avoid frustration I would think myself into a state of frigidity. This curbed the hornies, but then, when my boyfriend wanted to have sex, I found it harder and harder to defrost myself in time. He would work hard to get me aroused, and often spend a lot of time before I would begin to thaw out. [...] I would never try to communicate my problem to my boyfriend because I felt it was my fault'.
WTF! I mean, they could have taken any other examples! I'm sorry if I can't read this in a strictly linguistics point of view! This came almost as a shock to me cuz I didn't expect anything like that from a linguistics book!