Re: My version of the poem

In a message dated 6/23/1999 6:50:50 PM, fortytwo@UFL.EDU writes:

>Josh Roth wrote:
>> abbrevations used:
>> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5=97these are the person # (such as "you" is 2nd person)
>
>What are fourth and fifth persons?
>
They're extra persons=97like if you had a sentence with a bunch of different=20
people or nouns or whatever, the first one would be third person, the next=20
would be considered fourth person, etc. In Eloshtan you can go up to six;=20
things after the sixth one are also=20
considered sixth. I got this idea from the 4th person (often called=20
obviative) that many Native American langauges have.

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