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Re: Imperatives... does this work?

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 16:01
have been thinking about this in bac.

the original idea was that you could use one verb (
Bac ) to mean, ask, tell, say, whatever . . ., and
that you'ld distinguish meaning by mood of the verb:

but i had also decided that mood of the verb would
indicate whether an imperative ( formed by adding the
personal suffix—not usually on verbs ) was normal,
entreating, or polite ( indicative, optative and
subjunctive respectively ).

so : in indirect imperatives the suffix remains.

likewise mood may yet be used in questions, so i'll
keep the question marker '-i' in indirect speech.

personal pronouns would change, however, depending on speaker.

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