Re: Second person/polite pronouns (fuit Re: Another Ozymandias)

Quoting Sally Caves <scaves@...>:

> Imperatives are honorific or non-honorific.  One uses the future form for
> polite discourse when issuing a command (or rather inviting someone to take
> a future course of action):
>
> You will take the butter and mix it with the sugar.
> Deygrin essy      uen,  send  pomil hsakra ain essy vigla.
> Butter   will-you take, and   with-the sugar it  will you mix
>
> The Sir/Madam will take the road to the left and go straight to the
> intersection.
> Or, with plural subjects, one can use the hortative, including oneself in
> the "command":
>
> Let us take the road to the left.
> Il    naor hsinvvary euants.
> The road leftward  let-us-travel.
>
>
> Non honorific commands are more direct, and require a suffix.  Vera vektof!
> "Don't frown."  Mingadol gombref.  "Buy some meat."
This, as it happens, is the opposite of what Tairezazh does.

                                             Andreas