Re: another ?
From: | Mario Bonassin <zebuleon@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 1, 2000, 3:07 |
Nik Taylor wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that they have no way of
> distinguishing singular persons, so that all "I know", "you.sing know",
> "he knows", "she knows", "it knows" are all the same, but "we know",
> "you.pl know", "they know" are distinguished? Very strange. Surely
> there must be a way to distinguish between those? "One" is considered
> to be an impersonal pronoun, taking third person agreement in languages
> with personal inflection. There's no need to use the number one.
> German uses "mann" (person), Spanish uses "se" (the same as the
> reflexive pronoun).
>
Its still in the works but basicly Yes. The concept comes from the fact that
the race was not allowed to distinguish themselves that way. Only their
masters or the slave race as a whole could be distinguished as seperate
entities. I'm not sure if they developed a form of gesturing or tone to create
such distingtion yet, but the basic spoken form remains unchanged.
Mario