Re: 3rd-person imperative

On Mon, 8 May 2000 11:49:32 +0100, James Campbell <james@...> wrote:

>Jameld has a feature that is surely not unique, yet I don't recall seeing it
>elsewhere in any other lang. This is the fact that the imperative is not
>restricted to the 2nd person.
Olaetyan has imperative forms for all three persons, singular and plural (8
in all, since there are distinct endings for familiar and polite 2nd
person). (The first person singular imperative is used when writing
reminder notes to myself! Or "was", I should say, since I haven't actively
used Olaetyan in a long time.)

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/OlaetyanGrammar.html

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