From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:02:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cMWdnVIcw6z-PjfRnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocbabgbu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> 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
these categories tend to morph into each other as for example in "Don't
try to make me laugh" and "don't try and make me laugh" where, in the
second example "make" is at least half way toward being an imperative.
Already far afield from Emacs or even Emacs documentation but I didn't
start it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-03 3:06 emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Xah Lee
2010-10-03 11:14 ` Uday Reddy
2010-10-03 19:29 ` Russ P.
2010-10-03 19:38 ` Jay Belanger
2010-10-03 20:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 22:57 ` Russ P.
2010-10-04 18:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-05 0:53 ` Russ P.
[not found] ` <ias317$dtr$2@reader1.panix.com>
2010-11-04 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 1:16 ` Sean Sieger
2010-12-10 16:04 ` ken
2010-10-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-10-03 22:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-10-04 6:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-05 4:02 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2010-11-03 16:34 ` David Combs
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