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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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