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On Tuesday 15 December 2015 07:15:57 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:06:48PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > >Woah. Calm down a bit.
> > > >
> > > > That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh?
> > >
> > > Most definitely, yes.
> > >
> > > >                                                       Please try to
> > > > deal with it before issuing instructions to me.
> > >
> > > No idea how you could take as "instruction" what only could be meant
> > > as a "proposal", but there you go...
> >
> > It was in the imperative.
> >
> > "imperative ‎(countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)
> > (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order "
> >
> > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperative
>
> In the languages I know well imperative can express a strong wish as well
> as it can express an order.
>
> Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll bow to your interpretation.

Since when could one extrapolate from one language to another??!  Perhaps the 
languages you know well don't really have an imperative.  I quoted Wiktionary 
anyway, so it is not just my interpretation.

Lisi

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Re: no response from listmaster Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2015-12-14 03:50 +0100
  Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 04:50 +0100
  Re: no response from listmaster Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-14 05:00 +0100
    Re: no response from listmaster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-14 10:40 +0100
      Re: no response from listmaster Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-14 15:10 +0100
        Re: no response from listmaster tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-12-14 15:30 +0100
          Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 16:10 +0100
            Re: no response from listmaster Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 16:30 +0100
            Re: no response from listmaster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-15 09:00 +0100
              Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 12:10 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-15 12:30 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 12:40 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 12:40 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster German <gentgerman@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 12:50 +0100
              Re: no response from listmaster John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-15 15:10 +0100
    Re: no response from listmaster Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-12-14 15:30 +0100
      Re: no response from listmaster Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-14 15:50 +0100
        Re: no response from listmaster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-15 09:00 +0100
          Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 12:10 +0100
            Re: no response from listmaster Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-15 17:50 +0100
              Re: no response from listmaster Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-15 20:40 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 00:20 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lee Fuller <me@leefuller.io> - 2015-12-23 20:10 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2015-12-23 21:50 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lee <me@leefuller.io> - 2015-12-23 22:10 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-24 02:30 +0100
                Re: no response from listmaster Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 00:20 +0100
        Re: no response from listmaster Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2015-12-15 10:20 +0100
  Re: no response from listmaster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-14 11:10 +0100
    Re: no response from listmaster Lee Fuller <leefuller23@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 15:10 +0100
      Re: no response from listmaster Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-12-14 15:40 +0100
        Re: no response from listmaster Lee Fuller <leefuller23@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 17:50 +0100
  Re: no response from listmaster [SOLVED] Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2015-12-14 16:30 +0100

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