Re: 2nd person inanimate (WAS: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri)

--- Matt Trinsic <trinsic@...> wrote:
> But wouldn't it be interesting to invent a language
> in which a 2nd
> person inanimate is useful? Maybe a language where
> it is used when you
> are writing a letter? Viewing it as yourself talking
> to the paper, and
> the paper later talking to the intended recipient.
That would be the "Dear-Diary" person, I guess ?

Don't forget the 2nd plural inanimate, like in the
famous verses (Lmartine, if I'm not mistaken):

"Objets inanimes, avez-vous donc une ame
Qui s'attache à notre ame et la force d'aimer ?"

(supposing an e acute in "inanimes" and a circumflex
in "ame")



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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