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Re: Test and more.

From:Daniel Andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 17:57
Barry Garcia wrote:

> > > Well, in Saalangal you cannot tell the gender of anyone from the > > > pronouns. There are no pronouns for he and she, since both are > > > covered by 'taw' (he/she).
Then Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> In Moten, there are not even pronouns for the third person, but only > for the first _ga_ and the second _ba_,
Are you guys kidding me!?!? Yesterday I made up the Laranao pronoun system (which btw is far too regular to be realistic) and I have 't@' / 'tao' for 3sg and 3pl respectively, 3sg is both he/she and it ({ao} is a diphthong) and 'be' / 'bao' for 2sg/2pl. This is freakishly alike Saalangal 3p and Moten 2p. So, maybe I should change them so 2p is 3p and 3p is 2p. (even though 't@' looks very much like European 2p (Fr. 'tu' Sw. & Ger. 'du' etc.) Hmm... well, I think I'd better not change them. It's better to have them resemble two nice conlangs imho. And Barry, I really like your website's layout. Especially the flowers! :) Daniel Andreasson | http://make.a.conlang.nu daniel@conlang.nu | http://rinya.conlang.org =================================== "Words don't correspond to things, they correspond to thoughts." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1827 ===================================