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Re: Is it necessary to distinguish inclusiveness in possessive markers?

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, January 25, 2004, 19:21
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

>--- 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 suppose part of it is a natural result of hijacking number distinctions for politeness distinctions. Sometimes. After people started to get all polite to everyone, the singular just vanished, I suppose. To be etymologically correct, perhaps 'y'one' would make more sense. ;-)

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