tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 20 22:41:20 1997
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Re: yIjey'lu'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: yIjey'lu'
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 97 04:37:12 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Alan Anderson wrote:
> Tad Stauffer writes:
>
> > It seems really weird and contradictory, however to
> >use imperative prefixes with the suffix {-lu'}. That is, it seems to me
that
> >could you use {yIjeylu'} to mean "Be defeated!"...,
>
> That's...interesting. Very...interesting. At first glance, it's odd. At
> second glance, it looks like it works.
Except, of course, for the fact that "commands can only be given to 'you' or
'you (plural)'" (TKD p. 34). If you use {-lu'}, you have no subject,
including "you" or "you (plural)."
It doesn't work.
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