tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 21 16:06:36 1997
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Re: yIjey'lu'
Tad Stauffer wrote:
>could you use {yIjeylu'} to mean "Be defeated!"...,
I wrote:
>That's...interesting. Very...interesting. At first glance, it's odd. At
>second glance, it looks like it works.
SuStel writes:
>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)."
TKD doesn't actually say that the recipient of a command has to be the
*subject* of the command. It merely gives a collection of prefixes to
be used. If the use of {-lu'} requires that the prefix be interpreted
in the other direction, I don't see why it doesn't work.
-- ghunchu'wI'