[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "must"

[SuStel]

On 11/16/2016 3:24 PM, David Holt wrote:
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> > If you see me dancing up and down, you might conclude that
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> >*puch vIlo'nIS*/I need to use the toilet./Going to the bathroom will
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> > result in the benefit of not peeing in my pants, but no one is
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> > requiring me to go. If you're my boss and you tell me *puch yIlo'*
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> >/use the toilet!/I can now truthfully say *puch vIlo' net poQ*/I am/
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> >/required to use the bathroom,/because you are the outside
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> > agency making the demand, and it's my job to do what you say,
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> > regardless of the state of or danger to my pants. I can also
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> > continue to say*puch vIlo'nIS,*because my own personal need
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> > has not disappeared, but it says nothing about your demand.
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>
> I still don't get it.  What's the difference between the agency of the 
> boss and the agency of the bladder?
>

I'm afraid I have run out of way to explain this difference.

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