Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

<<poke-poke at another pidgin/creole fan:: David (DigitalScream)? what ya
say?>>

    I've been trying to say very little, actually.  But yeah, most Pidgins
and Creoles have one word for s/he/it.  In my Pidgin project I only had one
word for s/he/it (zali) which I borrowed from my language Wivoys which only
has the one word.  The English speakers I had using it actually didn't have
much trouble with it.  When there was ambiguity, context made it quite clear.
 And, after all, if the clearing up of the ambiguity is desperately
important, you can just say "woman" or "man" or their name.  In fact,
pronouns, really, are quite a superfluity; why doens't Zhong propose we get
rid of them?  But maybe I've said too much...

-David, who apologizes to anyone who receives this mail in a chopped up, HTML