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Impersonal pronouns (was: Re: cookbook)

From:Daniel Andreasson <daniel_noldo@...>
Date:Friday, July 6, 2001, 9:21
Irina Rempt wrote:

> > Valdyan uses the second person singular in the present tense. > > Those forms are also used for the imperative but I prefer > seeing it as >descriptive: "you take... you put...".
Padraic Brown wrote:
>Kerno uses the 2nd singular in the future tense (indicative).
The Nolltod (Noldor) use a shortened form of 'elf' developed from Quenya _queen_ used as an impersonal pronoun. In Cein this becomes _cui_ [kUj]. The unstressed form is _ce_ [tSE] or [tS@] from Quenya _quen_. The unstressed form is obviously much more used than _cui_. ||| daniel _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.