Re: imperatives

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

> >         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.
> >
> 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.

I agree about the second, but in the third I would have to change
"their" to "your" to make it a "true imperative", no?

Jorge