Did I use that right? It's like "fiat lux", right? I was cataloging a book with the title "der werfe den ersten Stein" and was fixing the record in the database so that "der" was not an article to be skipped over but a demonstrative pronoun ("that person should cast the first stone") when I noticed the unusual form of the verb, and then I remembered a whole group of mixed nuts that worry about stuff like that, and then I remembered how long it had been since I talked to them, and how maybe that's why I've been getting too much done at work...
Why do you suppose the word hortatory sounds rude to me? As tho' something got caught in your throat.
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Why do you suppose the word hortatory sounds rude to me?
I don't know why either. Just means to exhort somebody to do something.
Welcome home, beadfurd. Yeah, the hortatory subjunctive is a politer way of telling somebody what to do than is the plain ole imperative. I'm trying to figure out how it works in this example, though. Maybe it's just the common, garden variety subjunctive and no exhorting a tall. But, hey. What do I know? Parboly sommun'll come along and point out the obvious and you'll be vindicated.
a whole group of mixed nuts Ooh, ooh, can I be the cashew?
... but you can't make her a Republican.
... but you can't make her a Republican.
lol. I was thinking of somethig along the lines of "but she won't support King George."
Isn't that what he bought to ride around in after his bull died?
OH! OH! I know I oughta feel insulted, but I'm laughing too hard!
Let us keep hortatory remarks to ourselves in order to keep Jackie's giggles to a minimum. Thanks.
Well, I mean I can remember hearing it as "let him who is without sin cast the first stone", which sounds like the Italian Automobile Subjunctive to me.
No. Actually the Popemobile is built by Fiat. It has always been an open-air vehicle, which was never a problem until the Pope went to a few cold places, like Denver in January. His aides were rightly convinced that they needed to protect the Pope from the frigid air, so they asked Fiat to install a heating system in the royal purple vehicle.
Yep, it became known as the Purple Papal Heater.
Gesundheit. I was wondering if anybody'd do that!