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Conlangery #18: Mood

Conlangery Podcast

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The Jus of Which Is a Kind of Wishing Kind of Mood

There are a lot of them. One that's pretty common that you'll see is the jus which comes up a lot in things like classical Arabic and a few of the other Semitic languages. Other moods include subjunctive and optative or fairly common, aren't they? Well, well, this is you know my the saying that I like so much that grammar is born hungry If some new piece of grammar is finally born in a language it immediately starts looking for uncontrolled semantic space to take over And certainly the moods do that.

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