Re: Fourth Person
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 5, 1998, 2:53 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> I'm not sure that that's what that would mean. What I mean is this:
> inclusivity or exclusivity by nature require that there be two things to
> differentiate: either this or that, or both.
In the first person non-singular, inclusive and exclusive always refer
to whether or not the second person is included, which is why no
language has a distinction in the first person singular - any ways, my
point was merely that using the term fourth person sounds like something
unreal, and that was the first example that popped in my head.
But your example could be a sort of partitiveness (sp?). It would be
very convenient to have a pronoun for "part of me" ... maybe I'll
somehow incoporate it into W. ...
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