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Thread #118662   Message #3174709
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
22-Jun-11 - 03:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: English grammar question
Subject: RE: BS: English grammar question
In my experience (not being a native speaker, as I said), "You may want to ..." is a fixed idiom, of slight irony, meaning "I urge you in your own interest to ...". The irony may be taken further in phrases like "You may want to pay me $ 100 to prevent me from telling your wife about your whereabouts last night."

"Might" mightn't make it any better.