Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives

   Date:         Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:05:44 -0400
   From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>

   On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

   > In Danish, the verbs in these three phrases are put in the present
   > subjunctive, and I guess that it's the same in English even though you
   > can't really tell.

   In these instances you can tell the difference:

           indic.          subj.
   hallowed is thy name    hallowed be thy name
   thy will is done        thy will be done
   thy kingdom comes       thy kingdom come

Well, yes. What I meant was that the forms in Danish are distinct from
the imperative --- but on rereading, I don't think that anybody ever
claimed that the English forms were imperatives in the first place.
Sorry for leading you down this path.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)