Re: imperatives

[Goran Topic <topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR>]

> I thought of another case where even modern English uses a third person
> imperative: when the subject is "nobody", "somebody" or "everybody".
>
>         ei noda pencu ti
>         Nobody touch this.
>
>         e'o da sidju mi
>         Somebody help me!
>
>         ei roda punji lei ri cukta le jubme
>         Everybody put their books on the table.
>
> Aren't those third person imperatives in English?

I am far from being an authority on English... but the 2nd and,
especially, 3rd sentence above can be both true imperatives as well as a
subjunctive acting as a 3rd person imperative. If you don't believe me,
stick a comma inside, shift accent accordingly, and see what happens.

co'o mi'e. goran.

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