Re: Recent upheavals in Sturnan

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Tairezazh and Steienzh also use the future tense as a kind of stengthened
> imperative.
>
> The 'idea', so to speak, is that the imperative implies asking someone to do
> something, whereas the future implies that the addressed part will do as told
> regardless of his/her own views on the matter; it's inevitable.
This is also true of English; military orders are worded something like
this: "At 1800 hours, you will report to Camp Beta ..."

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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