Re: Edible and Drinkable Pronouns?

Jeff wrote:
<<
Just caught up on this. Looks like body-part nouns are inalienable
and take a
suffix?
 >>

If they're inalienable, doesn't that mean they shouldn't require
a suffix--e.g., you'd just say "the head", and that'd mean "my
head"...?

Anyway, both body parts and family relations take the "familiar"
possessive suffix.  So you'd use the same "my" to say "my head"
and "my mother", but a different for "my book", a third to say
"my tea", and a fourth to say "my manapua".

-David
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