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Turkish also has an imprecative mood, specifically for wishing ill on third parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprecative_mood https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by aebtebeten 2y ago
Turkish also has an imprecative mood, specifically for wishing ill on third parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprecative_mood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprecative_mood
On the other hand, a mood for well-wishing occurs in Sanskrit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictive [EDIT: and Quenya? https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1905928135.html 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_English#Tense_and_aspect 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?]
- shawndrost 2y ago> 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.
- Sharlin 2y agoThere's a similar quasi-mood in colloquial Finnish, humorously called "aggressive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mood
- appplication 2y agoThis was a fun and informative comment, thank you for sharing.
- 082349872349872 2y agoNo wuckers