Re: Fiat Lux

: >Interesting; I've never seen this form as a 2nd person command.
:
: Listen to impatient parents trying to get their dawdling kids on
: the move: "Let's go!" Morphologically 1st person, but solely
: directed at the second person.
:
: Padraic.

Ah.  I see this still as a 1p-pl command, because it's used where it's
implied that the speaker is going also, though the speaker is *already*
trying to go and only the second person is actually in need of being
commanded.  The case where the speaker isn't actually participating in the
action, I realize now, exists also (though I've always found that usage
rather rude.  A simple "hurry up" would do nicely.)

But that's a trivial difference in terminology.

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Shreyas

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