>>>>Just like they have "subpoenaed" a witness... what, "underpunished"? Because "sub poena" means literally that, "under punishment".
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>>>Ah, but I guess the implication is; "Come and be a witness - under punishment of imprisonment if you fail"
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>>That surely is the implication, but they made "under punishment" a transitive verb :).
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>I dig that in English though. Like "This process will take too long so I'll over-night it", or "Just for once I'd like to eat lunch in a restaurant; I'm sick of brown-bagging"

Don't you mean you'd like to 'do' lunch in a restaurant?