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Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, June 10, 1999, 6:23
At 21:09 09/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Nik Taylor scripsit: > >> "They"? Very unusual to have a third person pronoun be used for second >> person. > >Howzat? German does exactly that: "sie" is both 3rd person pl. and >2nd person polite. >
Same for Italian: "lei".
>-- >John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > e'osai ko sarji la lojban. > >
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