On Tuesday 06 May 2003 12:00 pm, Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> >There's a Gordon Dickson novel in which the aliens exist in groups of
> >three, and have separate pronouns for individual, triple, and
> >larger groups.
>
> There are some Austronesian languages which have pronouns for
individual,
> dual, triple, quadruple, quintuple and larger.
>
> >The English translation of the alien lang uses -self pronouns for the
> >triples, leading to lines of dialogue like "No, it is myself who is
> >under complaint of yourself."
> >
> >The only online reference to this book is confused, and thinks it's
the
> >Union Club Mysteries by Asimov: it isn't.
>
> Drat. My books are all packed, but I have that one - I remember
reading it -
> but the title escapes me.
>
>
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