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 suffixnot 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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