Re: preliminary conjugation in ju:dajca
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 18:43 |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>Oh...that's how the book i took out of the library on Romance Languages
>sometimes calls the plural 1st person, to make it shorter to say instead
>of 1st, 2nd, 3rd singular and plural, it just numbers them 1 through 6:
>1 me, 2 you, 3 it, 4 us, 5 you-guys, 6 them.
OK. That's a very strange usage. Anyway, I don't see any problem with
it, except for the retention of [u]. Most Romance languages change
this u to o: amamus in Latin yields amamos in Spanish; carrus ->
carro, etc. I don't think there is really any reason why J _must_
follow this pattern, since Romanian also keeps the u. Just something
to be aware of.
Padraic.
>-Stephen (Steg)