Re: Building up a FAQ: Please reply
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 19, 2002, 15:32 |
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Am 19.01.02, Philip Newton yscrifef:
> On 18 Jan 02, at 19:44, Roger Mills wrote:
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> > Taliesin wrote:
> >
> > >1d (linguistic): 1st person dual pronoun, I and you, we two
> > >2d (linguistic): 2nd person dual pronoun, you two
> > >3d (linguistic): 2nd person dual pronoun, they two
> > >1p (linguistic): 1st person plural pronoun, we
> >
> > Very common: lst pl. inclusive 'I and others, including you'
> > vs. lst pl. exclusive 'I and others, excluding you'
>
> And also in use: 1st dual inclusive and exclusive (for example, Niue, a
> Polynesian language, has five first person pronouns: singular, and then
> dual and plural each in both of inclusive and exclusive).
DSM 300.14ers unite! I's(incl. the Others) demand 1s inclusive /
exclusive distinction! Down with the One Body One Pronoun
mentality of linguistic discrimination!
> (By the way, it looks to me as if you spelled "1st" [one, ess, tee] as
> "lst" [ell, ess, tee]. Typewriter-ism?)
Perhaps, like many ancient typewriters, his keyboard doesn't
have a 1 (one) key.
> Philip
Padraic.
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