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Re: Imperative vs Jussive vs Hortative

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 28, 2005, 20:06
>My brain automatically supplies the word "case" when it sees linguistics >words ending in "-ive". It's a known bug, and I'm >working on it. > > >Paul
Hmm... I just got an idea: what you described could be reversed to derive new and interesting cases: archive (for old objects; archaisms) cursive (for cursed objects) deceive (for groups of ten objects) detective (for newly seen objects) forgive (for objects hit with a hammer) fugitive (for themes of fugues) massive (for deriving units of mass) productive (for association with the Plumber's Union) ... Uh, I might have to do some further weeding. Still, feels like there's some potential here. John Vertical