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Re: Cookbook

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 4:57
Henrik Theiling wrote:
->Sally writes:
>> Teonaht uses the future indicative with formal address: >> ... >I suppose my Tyl Sjok will work a bit like Japanese (but without >politeness levels or formal addressing): in recipes I'd expect agents >not to be used, so you get unspecified actors, i.e., something that >translates to passive voice. Maybe, but I have to investigate my >language further for telling this safely, this is the normal >imperative form (maybe imperative uses a direct addressing).
Kash will get around this in the Japanese way, then, using just the bare verb form: umit 'use....', lendup 'stir....'; recipes will start with a list of ingredients, headed by _pitani_ lit. need + 3d pers. poss. -ni, 'its need = it needs...~ you need....'