Steg Belsky wrote:
> Hmm...a few years ago my brother and a friend invented
> "second-and-a-half" pronouns - how you refer to someone who's standing
> right there while you're talking to someone else. Does anyone have a
> conlang that makes use of those?
>
> Theirs were:
>
> RE [ri:] = second-and-a-half person singular.
> DRAY (or DRÉ) [drej] = second-and-a-half person plural.
>
> There were two others to complete the set of object and subject pronouns,
> but my brother doesn't remember what they are and whether DRAY is object
> or subject. RE is for sure subject.
I love it! I would imagine the objective form of "re" would be either "rim"
or "rer" (I vote for "rim" because it sounds nicer), while the objective form
of "dray" would be--what else?--"drem".
> He says that he came up with the form RE based on the "pronoun" RU, from
> the famous dragqueen Ru'Paul. RU was what it was decided to use to refer
> to Ru'Paul, who is really a he, but RUS ([ru:z], like "his") persona as
> RU portrays RUSELF in media is decidedly female. So the form of the
> (gender-nonspecific) second-and-a-half person singular pronoun was
> inspired by the "ru" pronoun.
Ru go, girl! :-)
Matt.