Try Burning Instead

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The first sentence of this item on the BBC website, about a small town in Quebec issuing guidelines for prospective Muslim immigrants, could have been phrased better:

Don’t stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.

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    Bob-B

    It’s a problem you are likely to get in a language in which the imperative is identical to the infinitive. It couldn’t happen in Latin.

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