Re: no response from listmaster

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 15 December 2015 07:15:57 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:06:48PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > >Woah. Calm down a bit.
> > > >
> > > > That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh?
> > >
> > > Most definitely, yes.
> > >
> > > >                                                       Please try to
> > > > deal with it before issuing instructions to me.
> > >
> > > No idea how you could take as "instruction" what only could be meant
> > > as a "proposal", but there you go...
> >
> > It was in the imperative.
> >
> > "imperative ‎(countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)
> > (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order "
> >
> > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperative
>
> In the languages I know well imperative can express a strong wish as well
> as it can express an order.
>
> Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll bow to your interpretation.

Since when could one extrapolate from one language to another??!  Perhaps the 
languages you know well don't really have an imperative.  I quoted Wiktionary 
anyway, so it is not just my interpretation.

Lisi