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Re: Imperatives, not only negative (was: Noli-me-tangere)

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Date:Saturday, May 1, 1999, 8:34
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 01/05/99 09:10:46  , vous avez =E9crit :

<< And I seem to recall that Schleyer equipped Volapuek with three-fold
 normal, polite & peremptory imperatives.  This is fine in an artlang but
 IMHO rather overdoing it in a conlang designed as Schleyer's was as an IAL.
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 Ray. >>

I deeply disagree with you. 12-fold imperatives are necessary to deal with a=20
Zambian addressing his senior Japanese daughter-in-law in front of an Eskimo=20
vice-minister. Only that kind of IAL is viable.

Mathias