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Wed 2010-08-11 11:58
More words I wish there were
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[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.comWed 2010-08-11 14:08
There's a whole load of the type 2 things, if memory serves they're epistemic(expressing a belief) vs deontic (expressing a desire or an order). I'm not sure to what extent it's a feature of the language that things are so consistently dual-purposed.
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