Re: "two be"
From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
Date: | Friday, January 4, 2002, 20:14 |
English and French, both. I'm a native English
speaker. As to French, it has two "you's" (tu and
vous), but "vous" may address either a group of people
or a single person formally. Since my language
includes English (rare) and French (common) elements,
I guess I merged the ideas.
Clint
--- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...> wrote:
> On 2 Jan 02, at 8:48, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > I just use five pronouns because I have only the
> five
> > vowels, and diphthongs are disallowed. Being a
> > logician by trade, I noticed that having five
> vowels
> > produced some interesting patterns that I've been
> > trying to take advantage of.
>
> Yeah. I just wondered why you chose to merge
> specifically 2.sg. and
> 2.pl. (and not, say, 3.sg. and 3.pl.), and wondered
> whether English had
> anything to do with that :)
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
> --
> Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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