Re: Second person/polite pronouns (fuit Re: Another Ozymandias)

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:

> Hallo!
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:37:50 +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Back to honorifics in conlangs, I've not got any yet, but I'm considering
> > putting some into Meghean. Meghean being Meghean, it'll have to be some
> > rather baroque system ...
>
> Old Albic doesn't have a particularly intricate system of honorifics, only
> a familiar/deferential distinction in 2nd person pronouns (familiar sg.
> _tha_,
> du. _thu_, pl. _thi_; deferential sg. _la_, du. _lu_, pl. _li_), but not in
> verbs.  Perhaps things are that simple because the society is rather
> egalitarian.
Meghean honorifics would have to reside in pronouns, since verbs don't inflect
for person (or much of anything but aspect), unless I go all Javanese with
substitional vocabulary.

Part of why I'm thinking to introduce honorifics is that Meghean society is
decidedly *non*-egalitarian.

                                                     Andreas