Re: Will
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 17, 2000, 19:42 |
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Muke Tever wrote:
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>> Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
>>
>> I think most of these 'denatured verbs' like 'will' still have the original
>> meaning in their concept, although they see different usages; it's part of
>
>Not as I have understood that line. I don't see it as asking "do you
>want to join the dance" but "is your future state to be in joining of the
>dance", so to speak.
Curious, because I understand it as "do you want to / do you not want
to". That is, the primitive meaning of will, not the future
auxilliary usage.
"Will you join me at the dance a fortnight hence?" could be read
either way, as far as I'm concerned; but the primary reading would be
that of volition.
Padraic.