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

--- 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?

Padraic.


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