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Re: no response from listmaster



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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.

Regards
- -- t
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