is it? Italian and Sicilian both have "want + subjunctive (for non-matching subject)" forms
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
is it? Italian and Sicilian both have "want + subjunctive (for non-matching subject)" forms
Now that's okay - we love the subjunctive.
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Now that's okay - we love the subjunctive.
I've just completed 7 hours examining Spoken English for Cambridge U. So I'm objectively subjunctive. The Belgian beer helps!
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I've just completed 7 hours examining Spoken English for Cambridge U. So I'm objectively subjunctive. The Belgian beer helps!
Shall try a boulavardier shortly (I blame @jeremymillar.bsky.social for showing off his yesterday), but not until I've finished today's Duo, which all seems to be in the subjunctive. Also admiring my #YaySwap bauble from @artefactual.bsky.social, which went up with the tree yesterday.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Shall try a boulavardier shortly (I blame @jeremymillar.bsky.social for showing off his yesterday), but not until I've finished today's Duo, which all seems to be in the subjunctive. Also admiring my #YaySwap bauble from @artefactual.bsky.social, which went up with the tree yesterday.
Please do try to write coherent sentences.
Why use a subjunctive here?
Are you wishing your cardiologist to be something?
And what, precisely, is (note use of indicative mood) your cardiologist like?
I suggest you rethink the entire post and try again.
Once the accidental wine has worn off.
Why use a subjunctive here?
Are you wishing your cardiologist to be something?
And what, precisely, is (note use of indicative mood) your cardiologist like?
I suggest you rethink the entire post and try again.
Once the accidental wine has worn off.
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Please do try to write coherent sentences.
Why use a subjunctive here?
Are you wishing your cardiologist to be something?
And what, precisely, is (note use of indicative mood) your cardiologist like?
I suggest you rethink the entire post and try again.
Once the accidental wine has worn off.
Why use a subjunctive here?
Are you wishing your cardiologist to be something?
And what, precisely, is (note use of indicative mood) your cardiologist like?
I suggest you rethink the entire post and try again.
Once the accidental wine has worn off.
Never was a subjunctive more hastily summoned to serve and defend...
There’s a simple reason Hegseth keeps saying things that conflict with Bradley’s testimony (ex. no radio comms): admitting the truth would expose him to command responsibility. If the survivors were incapacitated, he’s not defending a policy; he’s defending himself.
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Pete Hegseth to Defense Forum: ‘I fully support that strike, I would have made the same call myself’
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December 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Never was a subjunctive more hastily summoned to serve and defend...
If I were the spirit of Christmas subjunctive...
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If I were the spirit of Christmas subjunctive...
I recommend that MS Word not deprecate the subjunctive.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I recommend that MS Word not deprecate the subjunctive.
"In the subjunctive, no one takes anyone's life" - Cristina Rivera Garza in Christina Sharpe's Introduction to The City of Our Dreaming.
Speechless.
Speechless.
My book arrived and changed my plans for the day week month!!
Everything about the Alchemy Lecture series is just so beautiful but this lecture by V. Mitch McEwen blew me away and continues to do so. 🔥
Everyone needs this book / these books.
Everything about the Alchemy Lecture series is just so beautiful but this lecture by V. Mitch McEwen blew me away and continues to do so. 🔥
Everyone needs this book / these books.
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"In the subjunctive, no one takes anyone's life" - Cristina Rivera Garza in Christina Sharpe's Introduction to The City of Our Dreaming.
Speechless.
Speechless.
It's not the same. Inshallah is the Indicative mode, 'Allah wishes it'. Weshallah, or Oshallah in the Arabic spoken in the medieval Iberian Peninsula, is the Subjunctive mode, meaning 'may Allah provide'. Spanish 'ojalá' is always used in the same mode, subjunctive, according to its Arabic origin.
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It's not the same. Inshallah is the Indicative mode, 'Allah wishes it'. Weshallah, or Oshallah in the Arabic spoken in the medieval Iberian Peninsula, is the Subjunctive mode, meaning 'may Allah provide'. Spanish 'ojalá' is always used in the same mode, subjunctive, according to its Arabic origin.
Adverbs are satanic.
The subjunctive mood laughs at dead babies.
The subjunctive mood laughs at dead babies.
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Adverbs are satanic.
The subjunctive mood laughs at dead babies.
The subjunctive mood laughs at dead babies.
A lot of my dreams are taking place back in high school or college & last night my French professor was handing out essays for everyone to write based on a reading, & she said we had to use the subjunctive tense. I wrote the paper in great French but I was like wait I didn't use the subjunctive!
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A lot of my dreams are taking place back in high school or college & last night my French professor was handing out essays for everyone to write based on a reading, & she said we had to use the subjunctive tense. I wrote the paper in great French but I was like wait I didn't use the subjunctive!
I didn’t even know English had a subjunctive until I learned about it in high school French.
Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I didn’t even know English had a subjunctive until I learned about it in high school French.
Watch out for season 4, when the crew confront the looming menace of the Borg Subjunctive.
(I should stop this, it's getting silly.)
(I should stop this, it's getting silly.)
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Watch out for season 4, when the crew confront the looming menace of the Borg Subjunctive.
(I should stop this, it's getting silly.)
(I should stop this, it's getting silly.)
And an admirable grasp of the subjunctive mood.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
And an admirable grasp of the subjunctive mood.
"Making frequent use of the subjunctive mood (si vivens sit, si vivat), the will captures grammatically, but no less movingly, the unpredictability of the present threat yet probable future prospect of sudden death." Latest addition to 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England - Volume 64
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November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"Making frequent use of the subjunctive mood (si vivens sit, si vivat), the will captures grammatically, but no less movingly, the unpredictability of the present threat yet probable future prospect of sudden death." Latest addition to 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I’m old enough to have gotten a fair amount of grammar in English class, but I only learned verb tenses taking French and things like the subjunctive from Latin and French.
That having been said, I had to teach myself Excel (and its predecessor, VisiCalc) so there’s that.
That having been said, I had to teach myself Excel (and its predecessor, VisiCalc) so there’s that.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I’m old enough to have gotten a fair amount of grammar in English class, but I only learned verb tenses taking French and things like the subjunctive from Latin and French.
That having been said, I had to teach myself Excel (and its predecessor, VisiCalc) so there’s that.
That having been said, I had to teach myself Excel (and its predecessor, VisiCalc) so there’s that.
“In due time, you’ll know everything.”
“Well maybe then it’s too late!”
Wow! The future conditional pluperfect subjunctive.
“Well maybe then it’s too late!”
Wow! The future conditional pluperfect subjunctive.
It’s thanksgiving week so I wanna see some MST3K posting, quotes, pictures, clips, gifs! Meanwhile I’m going to go to a department meeting and try to pay attention while I wonder if there’s beer on the sun
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“In due time, you’ll know everything.”
“Well maybe then it’s too late!”
Wow! The future conditional pluperfect subjunctive.
“Well maybe then it’s too late!”
Wow! The future conditional pluperfect subjunctive.
Very pleased considering I didn't know the subjunctive tense existed until recently 🤓😇😆 #subjunctive #español #language #ai
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Very pleased considering I didn't know the subjunctive tense existed until recently 🤓😇😆 #subjunctive #español #language #ai
Sounds good bab, I love the subjunctive, makes you feel dead posh 😆😆
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November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Sounds good bab, I love the subjunctive, makes you feel dead posh 😆😆
Additional benefit: by being exposed to correct printed language, children are in a better position to learn proper English in all its manifestations - including the subjunctive, which prescribes that what is ACTUALLY correct is:
"It is imperative that children be [note!] read to"
"It is imperative that children be [note!] read to"
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Additional benefit: by being exposed to correct printed language, children are in a better position to learn proper English in all its manifestations - including the subjunctive, which prescribes that what is ACTUALLY correct is:
"It is imperative that children be [note!] read to"
"It is imperative that children be [note!] read to"
I am the ghost of Christmas Future Perfect Subjunctive; I will show you what would have happened were you not to have changed your ways.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I am the ghost of Christmas Future Perfect Subjunctive; I will show you what would have happened were you not to have changed your ways.
#TheTwen2ie5 40/50
Karol G - SI ANTES TE HUBIERA CONOCIDO (Colombia, 2024)
After two days of dark, it's time to return to the sunshine. My sixth & final Spanish language pick, a summer dancefloor banger with a merengue twist.
all that and a chance to practice my Spanish imperfect subjunctive too.
Karol G - SI ANTES TE HUBIERA CONOCIDO (Colombia, 2024)
After two days of dark, it's time to return to the sunshine. My sixth & final Spanish language pick, a summer dancefloor banger with a merengue twist.
all that and a chance to practice my Spanish imperfect subjunctive too.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 40/50
Karol G - SI ANTES TE HUBIERA CONOCIDO (Colombia, 2024)
After two days of dark, it's time to return to the sunshine. My sixth & final Spanish language pick, a summer dancefloor banger with a merengue twist.
all that and a chance to practice my Spanish imperfect subjunctive too.
Karol G - SI ANTES TE HUBIERA CONOCIDO (Colombia, 2024)
After two days of dark, it's time to return to the sunshine. My sixth & final Spanish language pick, a summer dancefloor banger with a merengue twist.
all that and a chance to practice my Spanish imperfect subjunctive too.
my first semester latin textbook noted with a certain melancholy that "the subjunctive mode is moribund in english," but perhaps the need to navigate around social media blocks has revived it
I never threaten to light people on🔥. I just point out that I wouldn’t piss on them if they were. The niceties are observed.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
my first semester latin textbook noted with a certain melancholy that "the subjunctive mode is moribund in english," but perhaps the need to navigate around social media blocks has revived it
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM