[B-Greek] vulgar examples

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Nov 12 13:55:09 EST 2005


On Nov 12, 2005, at 12:45 PM, John VanRietschoten wrote:

> Carl Conrad wrote the following apparently himself forgetting what  
> he rightly tells us: to stay with the Greek. I object to Carl's  
> vulgar examples be it in the German or any other language.

My apologies to any who were offended by my "vulgar examples," or who  
thought that my random sampling of the way some imperatives are used  
idiomatically in more than one language was thought to be irrelevant  
to the question of imperative usage.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/




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