Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense
by shawndrost on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:57PM
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> Imprecative retorts in English
> While not a mood in English, expressions like like hell it is or the fuck you are are imprecative retorts. These consist of an expletive + a personal pronoun subject + an auxiliary verb.
There's a similar quasi-mood in colloquial Finnish, humorously called "aggressive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mood
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense
by appplication on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:58PM
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This was a fun and informative comment, thank you for sharing.
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense
by 082349872349872 on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:07AM
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No wuckers
On the other hand, a mood for well-wishing occurs in Sanskrit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictive [EDIT: and Quenya? https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1905928135.html ]
On the gripping hand, AAVE actually has a richer tense-aspect-mood inventory than Standard American English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...
[now I wonder what language Galadriel's ring speech was supposed to have been in, and whether it had a commissive mood?]