From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <87ocbabgbu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291894855 16978 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 11:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 12:40:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQerg-0007yV-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQerf-0004NU-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:40:47 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1288802062 14267 166.84.1.2 (3 Nov 2010 16:34:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:34:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182176 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76996 Archived-At: In article , B. T. Raven wrote: >David Kastrup wrote: >> "B. T. Raven" writes: >> >>> Yes, by their very nature, infinitives are split in English: "to love" >>> vs. "amare." There's no room in the atom "amare" to insert anything. >> >> So where do you split the infinitive in "Don't make me cry"? I was not >> aware that "to" was a part of the infinitive proper. >> > >Some say it is "the full infinitive" and some say it ain't. Some even >say there is no infinitive in English, only the plain form that also >serves for imperative and subjunctive (e.g. be that as it may). All ^^ ^^^ "Be" is (of course?) in the subjunctive. What about the "may"? Thanks! David