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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:00:40AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 December 2015 07:15:57 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll bow to your interpretation.
> 
> Since when could one extrapolate from one language to another??!

I have to do this all the time.

>                                                                   Perhaps the 
> languages you know well don't really have an imperative.

They both have.
>                                                          I quoted Wiktionary 
> anyway, so it is not just my interpretation.

Quoth Wikipedia [1]

  "The imperative is a grammatical mood that forms commands or
   requests, including the giving of prohibition or permission,
   or any other kind of advice or exhortation."

May I take the "request" part?

I'm done with this thread, btw.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood>

regards
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