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From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Third person imperative
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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fe di'e cusku fa la xorxes.

> In Spanish it would be: "Que ella me corte el pelo!"
>
> That's not really a third person imperative (it's the present subjunctive),
> but it does do the work of the imperative.

.ua I remember this construct and it was always baffled me, but I understand
it better.

ki'e mi'e dn.