# New co-moderator in Great Debates!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 6, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427 "2000-02-06T21:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/61 "2000-02-08T14:48:00Z")
Yea, he speaks the truth! We could have been deceived. Oh, Gaudere, show us yet another miracle, so that we may believe in thee! ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/62 "2000-02-08T14:51:00Z")
Y’know, tracer, I think you’re right–the accent should be on the _second_ syllable. That’s what I get for attempting to appear erudite. Guess I need to pick up a copy of _Teach Yourself Latin_ too. RT–it means “to rejoice”. I’m not just a verb, I’m an infinitive. Andros–if you’re actually me, that remark becomes ickily kinky. Well, it’s not as if it wasn’t anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/63 "2000-02-08T15:46:00Z")
Gaudere - you’re an _infinitive??_ Quick, over to the [anti-infinitive](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000962-5.html) thread! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/64 "2000-02-08T16:11:00Z")
Gaudere - I’m honored to meet an infinitive; this is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of knowing one. If I were a part of speech, I’d probably be an interjection! Seriously, it’s an apt name for you. Now, I’ll duck out while you engage in autoerotic kinkiness with your alter ego… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/65 "2000-02-08T16:17:00Z")
[arms folded… foot tapping…] Y’know, we’re waiting for our miracle over here. Doncha want us to believe? ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/66 "2000-02-08T16:23:00Z")
If it were easy for you to believe in Me, where would be the merit in your faith? Even godless atheists and sinners believe reasonable things. You wouldn’t want to be like _them_, would you? Go thou, and meditate on the ineffable duality of my Name. How can it perform some functions of a noun and at the same time display some characteristics of a verb? _And_ it is a proper noun at the same time! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/67 "2000-02-08T16:31:00Z")
Oh, truly she is great! Who can know her wisdom? Who has ever said words like these? * * * [days pass… grumbling begins…] * * * Hey, let’s go try the guy that bends spoons! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/68 "2000-02-08T17:34:00Z")
To paraphrase Buckminster Fuller, _Gaudere is a verb!_ ::groan:: ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/69 "2000-02-08T19:47:00Z")
RTFirefly wrote: > [@](#): > > If I were a part of speech, I’d probably be an interjection! Not without dinner and flowers. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/70 "2000-02-08T20:24:00Z")
…ineffable duality… So you’d be a split infinitive then? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427.md?page=3)