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Re: Thought and Language

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Friday, December 18, 1998, 0:06
> > Tom Wier wrote: > > > PS does anyone _not_ make a you/y'all distinction in their conlangs=
?
> > > Just curious.
The Nova pronoun 'ta' is you or you'all. Nova does not inflect for the one, more than one dichotomy, rather for known number:unknown number. ta.t=E9 =3D"2nd person, definite number", can be one or 1,000,000 and onc= e=20 established, the [t=E9] need not be repeated. ta.q'i=3D"2nd person, indefinite number", not likely to be one but could be (eg.speaking to someone[s] in a dark room) or 1,000,000, and again, once the number is marked in the conversation, it need not be repeated. Where the number is known, it can optionally be incorporated into the pronoun for the first utterance. ta.na=3D "you sg.", na=3D1 ta.bde=3D"you three", bde=3D3 ta.t'u=3D"you 8000", t'u=3D8000 --=20 Brad Coon hawksinger@fwi.com http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/everquest/624 My Conlang and Conculture pages http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/index.htm Most of my pages including my home page http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264 My Outdoor and Primitive Skills Pages http://members.tripod.com/~Hawksinger My wine pages. "Life without adventure is merely existance."--Hawksinger