Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re: Comparison of philosophical languages)

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> Because it doesn't contain a "li"? :-P
>
That must be it ;)) .

>
> That's /ta~1/.
>
Nasalised? Cool! :)

> But as far as pronouns are concerned... everybody should learn from
> Ebisedian! Ebisedian pronouns distinguish between gender *and* number
> in
> all their forms! And gender is not just masculine/feminine, it also
> includes a distinct neuter, a distinct "wildcard" that applies to
> *either*
> male or female (for those PC people among you)! There is no room for
> ambiguity! Ebisedian will be the language of the future! ;-)
>
Nah! Everybody should use Maggel, which has pronouns for masculine, feminine
and neuter (which is *not* epicene) in I think all persons, with pure
grammatical, which will make all PC people happy, because whether you're a man,
a woman or a tree, you'll have a probability of 1 out of 3 to be called by any
of the three pronouns, since it all depends on what you are referred to
as :)))) . And it can change during the course of *one* sentence :))) .

> Oh, oops, I forgot. It doesn't distinguish between 2nd and 3rd
> persons.
> That might be a problem for people who can't think in terms of
> distant/intimate... :-P
>
Maggel does make the distinction. But my Astou doesn't. In fact, Astou has only
two real persons: I and non-I :)) . And not even a distant/intimate distinction
to help ;))) .

>
> Poor guy...
>
At least he didn't bankrupt a house of edition ;)) .

>
> True. Though, believe it or not, I've never actually read Alice in
> Wonderland. :-)
Me neither. But I remember studying parts of it in English classes ;))) .

 (The only reason I did read the Wizard of Oz was because
> I
> found it on Gutemberg.)
>
Never read this one either. I only ever wanted to read them in original
version, and until not long ago I would have been unable to accomplish such a
thing! :)) But seen that I seem to manage Tolkien's English now, I guess they
shouldn't be that difficult anymore ;)) .

>
> --
> The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
> system
> and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. --
> Anonymous
>
Really? ;)))

Christophe.

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