I’m not even sure I want to go to my own. Think I’ll stand outside the door and listen to the cordial remarks. (That shouldn’t take long.)

Its in my will: no funeral, no wake, cheapest casket, just plant me.  Hate the whole concept. All for a family most of the time, and I have none.

I’m going for cremation. Always liked Joan of Arc.

And having ashes sprinkled over the acres of Kudzu? or the Ganges.
(See your governor admitted more liaisons with the “lady”.)

Governor

Yeh. He’s on a roll.

with 18 months still in office.  Should be fun?

No. Should be subjunctive: expressing a condtion contrary to fact.

And to think, today’s news said he could be (could have been) (subjunctive, declinative) been a contender for president some day.

Maybe he can go to Honduras where they ousted their president.

...today’s news said he could be (could have been) (subjunctive, declinative)...

Could be is not subjunctive. It’s a modal + the verb to be. . I have forgotten was declinative is, although I remember the term from Latin. Can you tell us?

Retired from teaching.  Couldn’t care less, that’s why I try hard to screw up the grammar thread, ornery, you called it. And I don’t care if that is subjunctive, adjunctive, dejunctive, or just plain Junk.

I cordially “decline” to believe that.

saparris - 01 July 2009 01:07 PM

I cordially “decline” to believe that.

In Latin, one declines nouns. Can you decline that, decline, that is.

I took Latin in junior high school, but I declined to continue in HS.

So you are stuck with caroliner?