A few weeks ago, I was supposed to attend my granddaughter’s birthday party — and it got postponed, because of goddamn COVID. It’s back on today, so we’re zipping off to Eau Claire for an evening with a small child, only to return early tomorrow. It’ll be fun!
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Have fun!
@ 違う:
I sometimes feel the need for an imperative in the past tense.
This is such an occasion:
PZ will not read your imperative before the fun. ;-)
Time travel should be a thing.
I’d say, ”Have had fun!”
@4, Herra hüümala, Taneli, that’s far better!
Come to think of it; in my mother tongue, Dutch, we do have a kind of past imperative.
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¡que lo hayan pasado bien!
um, nearest I can get to a sortofa kindofa past imperative :-)
Chigau@ 3
The language of Gallifrey is probably designed to deal with this issue.
René @5,6: In my native Finnish, the general rules of the grammar can applied to form an imperative in the perfect tense, but I can’t recall hearing or seeing anyone actually use it outside of contrived textbook examples. Anyway, my English wish was the word-by-word translation of the Finnish equivalent, ”Ole pitänyt hauskaa!”
Ik vind trouwens nederlands een heel lekker taal. Dutch <3