Re: "two be"
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 30, 2001, 9:37 |
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Quoting Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>:
> On 29 Dec 01, at 13:46, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > --You got the right idea. I found that having five
> > vowels presented some convenient patterns, so I take
> > advantage of that a lot. So my pronouns are:
> >
> > a--I
> > e--you
> > i--it/she/he
> > o--we
> > u--they
>
> Why don't you make a distinction between singular and plural in the
> second person? You have I vs we and he/she/it vs they, but not thou vs
> you. Is it just because English does not make this distinction?
No, not just English. Classical Chinese IIRC did not make any
distinction in number in the pronouns, so it can be done, but
the tendency would be to have one way or the other, not mixed.
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