Re: 1st person vocative (was: Language universal?)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 15, 2001, 22:01 |
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At 2:08 pm -0600 15/2/01, Eric Christopherson wrote:
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>I tend to say things of the sort "Come ON, me!" because I really don't like
>to say my own name.
Ah, a real example of 1st pers. vocative.
Maybe in some distant time in the past, some Roman did say:
surge, ego!
And with that I'll also say: saluete, omnes!
At least for a few days - I'll be off to south Wales to see the grandchildren.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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