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Re: No pronoun, no article

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Saturday, October 18, 2003, 1:46
John Cowan wrote:
> In Classical Yiklamu, the 1st and 2nd person pronouns are ordinary nouns > meaning "speaker" and "listener"; indeed other nouns could be used > if relevant as well, so that if you are talking to a teacher, you > could use "teacher" as a 2nd or 3rd person pronoun.
If you are a teacher, could you use "teacher" as a first-person pronoun? -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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John Cowan <cowan@...>