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Re: Various Commands (was Uralic Negative Verbs)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Saturday, April 1, 2006, 15:57
On 4/1/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> AFMCL, in uwjge orders are expressed with the help of specific 2p > pronouns... so "eat your veggies!" would look something like "you-IMP are > eating your veggies".
Sounds like Lojban, where the pronoun in question is {ko} and could, perhaps, be explained as "act so that the proposition becomes true" (in your example: "act so that ((you are eating your veggies)) is true"). Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>