Re: B-Sh has subject pronouns!

What in Strine, as attested to in "Let Stalk Strine" by Afferbeck Lauder, is
represented by the abstract plural pronoun : "Aorta" as in "Aorta do
something about it!"

It is the only pronoun that I know of with a a normative effect.

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:20, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Clint wrote:
> >Universal 3rd pers: For everything from proverbs to
> >gossip to the weather to conspiracy theories--the way
> >we might use "they say that..." in English.
>
> Certain dialects of Tairezazh has a special 3rd pl for this usuage; _krei_
> or variants thereof. It's quite unrelated to the normal 3rd pl pronoun
> _senen_ (with gender-specific variants _senon_ and _senan_, masc and fem
> respectively), and only exists in the nominative, in sentences like
> "they're raising the taxes again", or "they're up to something".
> Historically it's an old instrumental of the otherwise obsolete 3rd pl
> pronoun _ker_.
>
> In the standard language, you can use _senen_, but it's also common to use
> the noun/indefinite pronoun _tseken_ "people" in this kind of
> constructions.
>
> Translation exercise!
>
> _Krei staksek senos, lai seno srát eidhes._
> "They killed him, because he knew everything."
> (Except for the initial pronoun, the sentence could be Standard Tairezazh.
> Extra points, tho', for using dialectal forms of your conlangs.)
>
>                                                      Andreas
>
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Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."