Re: About persons

John Cowan wrote:
> There is a natlang, the name of which I forget, which has a
> very neat scheme of pronouns:
>
>                           singular    dual                plural
> speaker and listener     ---         thou and I          we (inclusive)
> speaker, not listener    I           he/she/it and I     we (exclusive)
> listener, not speaker    thou        he/she/it and thou  you
> neither one              he/she/it   they two            they
>
> Trying to fit this into the traditional scheme of first, second, third
> person just causes confusion.
How so?  It's just "1st person inclusive", "1st person exclusive", "2nd
person", and "3rd person".

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