Staving Costentin Cornomorus:
>--- Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:
>
> > I guess sg/pl for 2p is unnecessary, so it's
> > scrapped now.
>
>Hardly unnecessary! Clearly inclusion/exclusion
>is important to the culture that speaks this
>language. Now tha's making it impossible for me
>to include/exclude certain of my listeners!
>
>Why does tha think English has half ass patches
>like "y'all" to begin with?
I once came up with the following idea for a pronoun system
singular plural
1st 1st+2nd 1st+3rd 1st+2nd+3rd
2nd 2nd 2nd+3rd
3rd 3rd
ie a twofold inclusive/exclusive/"all inclusive" distinction in the 1st
person plural, and an inclusive/exclusive distinction in the 2nd person plural.
Pete