Re: Most developed conlang

Hi!

MorphemeAddict writes:
> theiling@ABSINT.COM writes:
>...
> > Would you say that Japanese 'sensei' is patently wrong for 'you'?
> > What's the problem of using (idiomatic) nouns for pronouns?
> >
> The fact that the noun meanings are often contradictory to the intended
> meaning of the pronoun.  For example, if I want to say "I hear you. Are you
> speaking to me?", I'd have to say something like "The speaker hears the hearer.  Is
> the hearer speaking to the speaker?".
> "Who are you?" would become "Who is the hearer?".  Even worse, "Who is the
> speaker?" could also mean "Who am I?".
I see.  This looks like fun, yes...

>...
> Yiklamu is meant to have a maximally distinctive vocabulary, which is based
> on English, which has distinct words for "I" and "YOU".  Leaving out these two
> very important concepts was a mistake, IN MY OPINION.
Ok, yes, I understand now.  Without this explanations, I found
'patently wrong' a bit flat, but now I know what you mean.

**Henrik