Re: What would this mood be called?

"Bob Greenwade" <bob.greenwade@...> wrote:
<I'm thinking to add to Rav Zarruvo a verb mood whose
general sense is, "Well, I thought so but now I'm not
so sure." It's the sort of thing that could be used
after discovering that the man you were about to
accuse as a sniper has Parkinson's disease, or that
your stomach wasn't ready for solid food after all.  I
have no idea what to call this, though. >

--- Joe Hill <joe@...> replied:
<Retractive?  I just made that up...but it sounds
about right...>

Neither do I know what the correct term, if any, would
be - though, I admit, Joe's suggestion has a nice
ring.

Thinking to myself, though, about the purpose of the
"indicative" mood and the "subjunctive" mood, I got a
totally off-the-wall notion to call the aforementioned
the "imaginative" mood  ;-)

[Note: above comment was meant to be a smile to your
face, so don't hound me about the naming not actually
fitting the function described completely]

M.E.S.

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