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		shawndrost 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turkish language has a gossip tense > Imprecative retorts in English > While not a mood in English, expressions like like hell it is or the fuck you are are imprecative retorts. These consist of an expletive + a personal pronoun subject + an auxiliary verb.

Sharlin 9 months ago [–]

There's a similar quasi-mood in colloquial Finnish, humorously called "aggressive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mood

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