hortatory subjunctives
Bart Ehrman
behrman at email.unc.edu
Thu Sep 30 14:35:11 EDT 1999
What do you (y'all) think of translating hortatory subjunctives as "we
should" instead of "let us"? I don't think we use the latter any more in
normal speech, do we? (For what I have in mind -- a formal translation --
I don't think "let's" will work; too colloquial.) But I'm not sure if the
former really catches the flavor.
-- Bart D. Ehrman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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