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Re: Mood names ...

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 19:22
Roger Mills wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote: > > >> >Also, there's three moods I have no idea what I should call. They, > >>roughly, > >> >corresponds to English "ought to", "need to" and "must". > >> > >>Ought: "morally" obligatory (I can't think of a term for this) vs. > >>Must/Have to: simple obligation-- obligative? > >>Need to: necessitive seems OK > > > >Necessitive is in, then. Moral vs physical obligative for the two others > >perhaps > >I originally thought of obligative for "ought", coercive for "must, have >to", but that didn't seem accurate. Intervening posts now suggest-- > >ought: obligative >must/have to: debitive (~debitative?), reflecting Lat. debere. (Or, what >was Latin for "duty"???)
I guess "obligative" is set then. What does lat _debere_ mean, exactly? And it appears I forgot one of the moods, which signifies "be allowed to, have the right to".I'm currently calling it "permissive" - is that good? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail