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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 16:16
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