Re: no response from listmaster

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

On Tuesday 15 December 2015 10:50:55 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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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:
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> [...]
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> > > Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll bow to your
> > > interpretation.
> >
> > Since when could one extrapolate from one language to another??!
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> I have to do this all the time.
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> >                                                                   Perhaps
> > the languages you know well don't really have an imperative.
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> They both have.
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> >                                                          I quoted
> > Wiktionary anyway, so it is not just my interpretation.
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> Quoth Wikipedia [1]
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>   "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."
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> May I take the "request" part?
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> I'm done with this thread, btw.
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> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood>

 "Please be quiet". (from the above) "Be quiet."  In English the second is 
_certainly_ not a request.  Nor in practice is the first.