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Re: No pronoun, no article

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Sunday, October 19, 2003, 1:41
--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:

> Except, what about strangers? How would you > ask someone "What's your name?",
"Give Nik a preferred handle!?"
> or how would you translate "you" in, > for example, a contract?
With the name of the entity.
> I > suppose one could use a phrase like "listener" > or "reader", but I > suspect that eventually that would become a > genuine 2nd person pronoun, > even if this language still tends to avoid it > when possible.
Yeah.
> And, again, using names for 1st person could be > potentially ambiguous. > What if there's another person named David?
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