Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 10, 1999, 22:48 |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:16:19 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
>Reading the discusssion about politeness prefixes, i am wondering, how
>does everyone here handle them in your languages? In Sakatda Ka Kadomo
>there is a familiar you (umi) and a formal
>you (ami). For you all, they use the pronoun for "they"
>
In Rokbeigalmki to be respectful to someone you refer to them by their
occupational lastname + "the", so a teacher would be _darish-a_, a
fisherman would be _yagh-a_, etc. The verbs and everything else are
conjugated normally.
-Stephen (Steg)
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