tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 08 08:16:44 2004
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other person imperatives
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: other person imperatives
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:06:20 EST
In a message dated 2004-02-08 12:57:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> . Does anyone know of a language in which you can give a command to
> anyone but a second person?
>
english uses "let" for this (technically, i suppose, both examples are 2nd
person imperatives, but the meaning is not 2nd person):
1st person (plural) is "let's do it"
3rd person is "let him do it".
many languages (i.a. russian, german) have equivalent forms, but i can't
think of any that has a unique or distinctive form for these meanings.
stevo
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