[minstrel: Vivat the Dream]

[J.A.McGowan]

At 09:14 08/07/99 -0600, yarrowp at mscd.edu wrote:
><<Vuong Manh wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 yarrowp at mscd.edu wrote:
>Thank you for this note.  Does anyone know why we don't actually use the 
>imperative?  "Vive" for singular, "Vivete" for plural?
>
>Vivien

"Long may (s)he/they live" is a wish.  Imperatives are a command, and
therefore necessarily peremptory.  

Even the Bible uses the subjunctive for God:  "Fiat lux."  ("Let there be
light.")

Sela.






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***

Where could even so great a monarch as yourself procure, all at the same
time, three madwomen...an impossible bumpkin who claims to be betrothed to
the maddest of the lot, a stable full of penniless actors who keep my
guests' horses awake with their goings-on, and a stableboy who was never
worth much to begin with and lately shows real promise of becoming a
complete liability? 	-P. Beagle

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