Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives

In trQal, the verbal "moods" can be used as imperative.  And there is no
third person -- which means that all imperatives *are* third person
imperatives.  Think about Silence of the Lambs:  "It places the lotion
into the basket!"

Some examples:  (Capital vowels indicate creaky voice (actually
eructative, but I don't expect anyone to belch), x is a velar approximate,
X is a voiced velar apprximate, c is a velar fricative, C a voiced velar
fricative, q is a glotal stop, Q is a uvular injective, and H is a uvular
trill)

hotakOx qr.  "It hunts."
hetkrOx qr.  "Hunt with me! -- I'm hungry."
hotukOx qr.  "Hunt with me!  I'm horny."

Trollish moods are literally *moods*, and while they fulfill many of the
roles of the subjunctive and imperative (and some situations involving sex
or food, perfect and imperfect!), they're *not* those moods.  The
imperative of almost every sentence just has to be intuited.  For
instance,

sekmutOx qr  (speak!  I'm hungry) and segrqatOx qr (speak!  I'm hungry)
aren't all that different from o ne another; both could be used as
subjunctive moods, but

qetAkOx qr (come here!  I'm hungry) and qetukOx (come here!  I'm horny!)
have very different meanings -- but they both boil down to . . . run away.

--Patrick