From: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: German language mistake in the answer if I do a : guix package --upgrade --dry-run
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:53:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt56_n=hM-Agtq8REtWhrDTyoRuVwvW-SNZRv9QVp0xz21A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qsbj9fn.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 2:29 PM Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
> In the first sentence “würde” is the Konjunktiv II form of “werden”,
> whereas “würde” + inf. verb in the
> second sentence is a pattern to avoid modification of the verb.
It's a tiny point to spend words on but I agree with Ricardo's
reading. Germans often construct around the simple subjunctive because
it sounds too short. The extended forms are arguably a form of
hypercorrection.
Just my two centimes—no flaming, please...
Kind regards, and please have a great weekend!
Felix
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-16 18:59 German language mistake in the answer if I do a : guix package --upgrade --dry-run Gottfried
2022-09-16 21:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-09-16 22:53 ` Felix Lechner via [this message]
2022-09-17 13:57 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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