tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 09 17:05:21 1999
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Re: KLBC: Imperative prefixes
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Imperative prefixes
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 20:04:18 EDT
In a message dated 8/6/1999 9:20:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
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So long as you're wishing for weird imperatives, note also the Klingon
lacks a "third-person imperative." That's for stuff like "let there be
light" and such. When I think about it, Hebrew really does this, at least
in "let there be light"; that verb-form is definitely third-person, and is
definitely not indicative. But for other verbs I think it would just use
(something identical to?) the future tense, like with firs-person stuff.
Esperanto as usual uses its imperative, even for things we'd think more of
as "-jaj"-like, like "they should be happy" or commands "let him enter".
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wovlu' 'e' yIchaw'. 'el ghaH 'e' yIchaw'.
Okay. The imperative is still to the second person, not to a third person.
And, it takes two sentences (connected into one by the pronoun {'e'}). So, I
see that Klingon can convey this concept, just without a third-person
imperative.
As to first-person plural imperative, not only does {Ha' + a hortatory-type
sentence} work for me, often the first-person singular imperative {HI-} feels
inclusive enough.
peHruS