Re: Pronouns or Names?

A language without 3rd person pronouns is easy. Latin didn't really have
any... it used demonstratives like "this one", "that one" etc or others
to fill in for them, much as Basque does (the most common are "hura"
that one, versus "bera" the same one in Basque). getting rid of 1st and
2nd person pronouns might be more difficult, but I guess you could treat
2nd like 3rd and only be left with 1st... the Japanese don't use
pronouns much compared to the English, and they tend to use names rather
than 2nd person pronouns.

> Rodlox R wrote:
>
>> which would be more plausible?  (as a conlang or a natlang) ?...
>>
>> * a language with pronouns (he/she/it/they/you), but no personal names
>> (Paul, Bill, Pedro, Joan).
>>
>> * a language with personal names, but no pronouns.
>>
>> thoughts?
>
>
> A language without pronouns would be redundant if we have to name the
> person
> every time
>
> But I dont know witch way a language could not have any way to name the
> people
>
> So, for me, the most plausible would be the one without pronouns, it
> could
> be like when we don't use any pronoun because it's obvious each time the
> real name isn't used
>
> But, maybe you think to avoid pronouns to represent the person with a
> suffix
>
> In that case it's approximately the same thing than a pronoun so it's
> very
> easy because I also begun to create a conlang without person marks
> except in
> conjugaison...
>
>