Re: More on the Hermetic Language
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 9, 2003, 8:14 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Paul Burgess wrote:
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>>and eight moods (indicative, subjunctive, optative, conditional,
>>imperative, jussive, potential, and permissive).
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> How is subjunctive used? What's jussive? I'm assuming potential and
> permissive are more-or-less equivalent to "can/be able" and "may"?
AIUI, jussive is basically the same as imperative, except it can be 1st
or 3rd person (imperative is by definition always 2nd person). Usually
translated into English as "let": "Let him come", "Let them eat cake", etc.
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