Re: "two be"
From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
Date: | Sunday, December 30, 2001, 6:25 |
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?
> are the direct-object forms (can someone remind me of
> the proper term for that--I want to say "accusative",
> but that doesn't sound right.)
It probably is, though. Accusative, in those languages I know which
have it, is used for the direct object of (most) transitive verbs.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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