subjectless clauses

by **Brazilian dude** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:15 pm

I just realized I've been leaving out my I's and it's (as in the plural of it) too often. Is this serious?

Sounds too much like a direct translation from English. It reminds me of vacunar la carpeta.

I don't know, sounds kinky.

Caught you with your pants down, huh! Please don't respond to this.

Brazilian dude

by **tcward** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:23 am

Sounds fine to me.

-Tim :lol:

by **Brazilian dude** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:29 am

Gotcha.

Brazilian dude

by **anders** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:08 pm

Somewhere, rather recently, there was a thread on this phenomenon. Can't find it now, though.

by **Stargzer** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:02 pm

Perfectly good English as far as I'm concerned.

Probably colloquial, i. e., informal or spoken, though. Either that or a sentence fragment according to what little I could find in my ancient Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers. Where's Mr. Carney or Dr. Offutt when you need them?

Website · by **Garzo** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:50 pm

Called implied subject. Is used all the time. Use it all the time. Quite handy really. Most often seen on postcards: "Wish you were here". Wouldn't worry about it. S'long's context giving necessary.

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by **Stargzer** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:59 pm

Garzo wrote:Called implied subject. Is used all the time. Use it all the time. Quite handy really. Most often seen on postcards: "Wish you were here". Wouldn't worry about it. S'long's context giving necessary.

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Thinking back, probably a holdover from Latin:

Cogito ergo sum as opposed to Ego te absolve a peccatis tuis.

by **Brazilian dude** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:01 am

I never knew one to be opposed to the other. :wink:

Subjectless clauses are a feature of Romance languages (expect French) and most Slavic languages as well. Maybe subjects are really only necessary in Germanic languages, I don't know. I'd have to investigate further.

Brazilian dude

by **M. Henri Day** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:55 pm

Stargzer wrote:... Ego te absolve a peccatis tuis.

Larry, you're the churchman, but shouldn't that be «absolvo» (1st person singular indicative), rather than «absolve» (2nd person singular imperative) ?...

(Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis - this time !)

Henri

by **Stargzer** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:23 am

M. Henri Day wrote:
Stargzer wrote:... Ego te absolve a peccatis tuis.

Larry, you're the churchman, but shouldn't that be «absolvo» (1st person singular indicative), rather than «absolve» (2nd person singular imperative) ?...

(Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis - this time !)

Henri

I never said I had an "A" in Latin I or II . . .

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

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Actually, I thought Garzo was the churchman; but I am a Catholic. There are two kinds of Catholics, you know: devout and lapsed. I'm not in the former category . . .

by **M. Henri Day** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:42 am

Larry, would it be reasonable to say, from an «identity» perspective, that an identity as a «devout Catholic» or devout follower of any other religion, for that matter, is both religious and cultural, whereas that of a «lapsed» follower is mainly cutural ? I don't intend this as a question about your personal beliefs, but rather a more general one, based upon my own interest in and understanding of «identity» questions....

Henri

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