Re: CHAT: Unconventional pronoun systemsshow us yours!

Wesley Parish wrote:
> In Nu Aves Khara-Ansha, the language of the sacred hunt, I've got a
> combined
> definite article/second person singular pronoun used to publically address
> those which whom one is on an intimate relationship who are higher in the
> social scale than oneself, "Nuaa" as in "nuaa Praleyo", Thou Praleyo.  It
> is
> also used wryly by mothers to their children.
>
That's delicious.  I can see a need for such a pronoun in Old Kash, and
perhaps still in related languages spoken in countries where class
distinctions are more rigorously observed than in Holunda. While royalty and
the peerage don't socialize a lot with the lower orders, it's quite possible
that one might have a lover or f*ck-buddy of lesser status.  And if said
lover or FB were the sexually dominant partner, it might even be the
aristocrat who'd have to use the pronoun, haha (albeit, I'm sure, with a bit
of covert irony...).  (Adds to To-do List--- hmm, nom. _tis_, gen. tisi
~ -si, dat. tise ~se, acc. tin; plural (yes, there might be more than one)
tila, tili, tile, tilan. The word is related to _sisa_ 'love'.  Ho! Done!
But we still need a lower-to-higher pronoun for non-sexual relationships...)

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