@eltonfc @santi It's funny, if you made me just answer quickly, I'd say imperative is the closer of the two. But, thinking of infinitives as “verbal nouns," that noun-ish sense is probably how I think of it. I suspect that's a shift over decades from “I'm telling the computer to do this" to “This is the place where certain things are done.”
Timothy R. Butler
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