Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t4XWV-0000ZOC; Sun, 15 Oct 95 20:10 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 6D06BED0 ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 19:10:59 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 14:09:25 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: imperatives X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 645 Lines: 18 > > ei noda pencu ti > > Nobody touch this. > > > > e'o da sidju mi > > Somebody help me! > > > > ei roda punji lei ri cukta le jubme > > Everybody put their books on the table. > > > I am far from being an authority on English... but the 2nd and, > especially, 3rd sentence above can be both true imperatives as well as a > subjunctive acting as a 3rd person imperative. If you don't believe me, > stick a comma inside, shift accent accordingly, and see what happens. I agree about the second, but in the third I would have to change "their" to "your" to make it a "true imperative", no? Jorge