Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t4KCV-0000ZOC; Sun, 15 Oct 95 05:57 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 302E5853 ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 4:57:27 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 03:17:42 MET Reply-To: Goran Topic Sender: Lojban list From: Goran Topic Subject: Re: imperatives X-To: Lojban Listserv To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 990 Lines: 26 > I thought of another case where even modern English uses a third person > imperative: when the subject is "nobody", "somebody" or "everybody". > > 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. > > Aren't those third person imperatives in English? 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. co'o mi'e. goran. -- GAT/CS/O d?@ H s:-@ !g p1(2)@ !au(0?) a- w+(+++) (!)v-@(+) C++(++++) UU/H(+) P++>++++ L(>+) !3 E>++ N+ K(+) W--(---) M-- !V(--) -po+ Y(+) t+@(+++) !5 !j R+@ G-@(J++) tv+(++) b++@ D++ B? e+* u@ h!$ f?(+) r-- !n(+@) y+. GeekCode v2.1, modifications left to reader to puzzle out