HUMOUR: English dual (was Re: Offlang suggestion)

Maarten van Beek wrote:
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For all I know in the near future wet may found a real conlang club [...]
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I apologise for taking your typo out of context, but I think you may have
inadvertently stumbled across a (future?) English dual pronoun:

wet (pronoun) = 'the two of us' - origin unclear, probably from 'we two',
influenced by Quenya dual -t (i falmalinnar imbe met)

I might submit it next time the OED asks for new words - let's get
Qy./Quenya into the list of abbreviations!

:))

Jonathan.

'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
Auden/Britten, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'

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