Re: USAGE: objects of either directivity

Robert B Wilson sikyal:

> -- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > In English, there are several verbs, mostly of telling, which
> > can take an indirect and a direct object, as in "Tell me a story."
> > However, when the verb has only a direct object, that object can
> > fill either role:  "Tell me."  "Tell the story."  It's like a bridi
> > with three sumti where the third is optional, but where there's
> > possibly
> > an implied "se te" before the brivla.
Perhaps I missed another post on this, but: "bridi", "sumti", "brivla":
what are these words, and what do they mean? They look like Sanskrit
grammatical terms to me, mixed with an allusion to Spanish grammar.


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