Re: Animacy in active languages (was Re: Non-static verbs?)

>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?
Not as such. A Talarian speaker could make a similar distinction
by affixing one of those oh-so-usefull demonstrative pronouns.
Such a person could be referred to as tu-cos, "this-here thou".
More likely, the 2nd & 1/2 person would be referred to by name,
which is a little more polite. Definitely more polite than using
plain 3rd person cos (he/she), thus pretending that the other fellow
isn't there at all!

Padraic.