Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Peter Bleackley wrote:

> Future English will have a nominative case of nouns and pronouns which is
> marked for tense.
I think better: English may have mood/aspect particles which incorporate
the person and number and/or cliticise onto the noun. (I think also it
might be pro-drop: there are certainly times even without redundency when
pronouns can be skipped.)

Actually, that's practically already happened. As I've mentioned before,
IMD the plural pronouns + 'to be' only keep the first consonant the same
(e.g.  we /wIi/ vs we're /we:/; you /ji\u\/ vs you're /jo:/; they /D&i/ vs
/De:/) and less noticeable things happen in other contexts.


--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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