--- 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?
Deictic particles.
Padraic.
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