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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 -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...>
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>