Re: first lang test
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 9, 2001, 0:30 |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Why not? The pronoun system itself has undergone many changes over the
> centuries. Pronouns become gradually less respectful, until they're
> abandoned, and new pronouns are invented as respectful pronouns.
> "Boku", for one, originally meant "servant", and was a very humble way
> of saying "I", that was about a century ago. Today, it can only be used
> in informal (IIRC) settings.
Neat. The polite first person Hrondu pronoun is wasoo, which literally
means "servant." And the polite second person is "tamina," which means
"beauty," or "the beautiful one."
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