Re: Interesting Pronouns.

On Mon, 7 May 2001 14:38:06 -0000 Bjorn Kristinsson <bjornkri@...>
writes:
> Ello y'all
> One of the things I generally find, well, dull in my conlangs are the
> pronouns. They're usually all three persons, singular and plural,
> possibly
> with added 'dual' pronouns[1], and possibly even 2 or more genders
> for each, just to try and make things interesting.
> In short, they won't. The result is usually a fairly cluttered table
> of pronouns that don't make too much sense.
> So, what I was wondering is if you, my fellow conlangers, have any
> interesting/alternative ways of making pronouns (or perhaps not using
> pronouns at all) that you'd care to share?
> Gracious,
> Björn
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Well, i'm pretty fond of my Gabwe pronouns.  Gabwe has:
1 first-person singular pronoun (Ek)
1 second person pronoun, both singular and plural (Yaw)
1 third person pronoun, for all genders, singular and plural (Da)
3 different first-person plural pronouns:
exclusive we = me+them (Gur')
inclusive we = me+you (Hib)
all-inclusive we = me+you+them (Tuy)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "jealousy, selfishness, and being a self-hating human can cause early
death."
     ~ R' Yehoshua` (rough translation)

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