Re: More on the Hermetic Language

Jake X wrote:
> [maIk ElIs rot]
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>>Garth Wallace wrote:
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>>>Jake X wrote:
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>>>>>AIUI, jussive is basically the same as imperative, except it can be 1st
>>>>>or 3rd person (imperative is by definition always 2nd person). Usually
>>>>>translated into English as "let": "Let him come", "Let them eat cake",
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>>>>etc.
>>>>So would the Esperanto -u ending in verbs be more properly called
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>>jussive,
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>>>>rather than imperitive?  (even though, without a pronoun, it is assumed
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>>to
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>>>>be
>>>>second person).
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>>>It's not clear which term should be used if it can be used for all
>>>persons. Either term is fine, AFAICT.
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>>If I remember correctly, Irish has a full six-form "imperative". It's
>>probably not the only one either.
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> So, then, would we say that imperitive is the more general term, though
> more specifically used to mean the tense of the second person command,
> and jussive the tense of a verb commanding any person except 2nd?
Pretty much. Although imperative and jussive are moods, not tenses.