Re: Saalangal stuff
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 5:17 |
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Barry Garcia wrote:
---->Clarification: It's impolite to focus on the person who did the action,
>when talking about another :). Using the agent trigger to discuss what
>someone did, is considered as accusing, it's like emphasizing "you" in
>sentences like: YOU went to the store, YOU broke the vase, YOU hit the
>dog.
We were given similar advice when learning Indonesian-- which also avoids
the 1st per. sing. pronoun like the plague. All pronouns are omitted
whenever possible. When speaking to or about "superiors", there are
deferential forms, though I suspect younger speakers may be getting away
from that.
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