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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/10/2019 12:14 PM, Ed Bailey wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">SuStel, I expected.you to object, even
though wording like "no reason to believe" and "let's suppose"
make it obvious that it's just speculation. But if I danced to
your tune, I'd never get to speculate at all because I'd be
spending all my time on the impossible task of composing a
disclaimer sufficient for a reader as infinitely careless and
obtuse as the one you envision.</div>
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<p>Regarding obtuseness, I have one word for you: <b>'I'.</b></p>
<p>As for dancing to my tune, I didn't ask you to dance or tell you
to stop. I said I didn't think it was particularly constructive.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">As for whether we can use Type 9 suffixes
on imperative verbs, I'd go beyond what you say, that you don't
think so. I'd say flat out that we can't do it.</div>
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<p>If you can go beyond "don't think so," then please demonstrate
how you know this for a fact.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> But I'm not going to tell Klingons they
can't.</div>
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<p>Neither am I. None of us are Klingons.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> Since Daniel raised the possibility,
it's fun (for me, at least, if not for you) to imagine a Klingon
using this weird grammar and to try to figure out what the
intended meaning is. If ever there were canon examples of this
weird grammar, hopefully Maltz would explain, as he has in the
past.</div>
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<p>Daniel was asking for someone to show him an example of an
imperative with a syntactic suffix that made sense, not to try to
find ways to make sense out of a combination that doesn't seem to
make sense.<br>
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SuStel
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