Re: Conlangs in History
From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
Date: | Saturday, August 19, 2000, 6:04 |
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Of course, there's also a reference to the fact that "you" is both
> singular and plural in Standard Galactic. What are the odds that a
> language spoken 25 millennia from now, even if descended from English,
> would replicate our strange 2nd person?
Not so bad, if you assume that it removes other number distinctions with it.
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