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“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag|verb}}. [[Mediocre lawyer|Fastidious draftspeople]] inevitably put it into the {{tag|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), brusquely [[nominalisation|nominalised]] it into a {{tag|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted it ''back'' to a {{tag|verb}} again, ''still'' in the passive: (I am ''[[obligated]]'').  
{{pe}}“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag|verb}}. [[Mediocre lawyer|Fastidious draftspeople]] inevitably put it into the {{tag|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), brusquely [[nominalisation|nominalised]] it into a {{tag|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted it ''back'' to a {{tag|verb}} again, ''still'' in the passive: (I am ''[[obligated]]'').  


For a ninja trick put it in the [[future perfect]] [[passive]]: “I shall have been obligated”.
For a ninja trick put it in the [[future perfect]] [[passive]]: “I shall have been obligated”.
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There's a better, active, English verb: “[[must]]” which, if you are to find favour with people like [[Amwell J|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].
There's a better, active, English verb: “[[must]]” which, if you are to find favour with people like [[Amwell J|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].


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*The [[future perfect]]’s not what it used to be expected to be going to have been.
*The [[future perfect]]’s not what it used to be expected to be going to have been.
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