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Re: idea: environment pronoun

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, April 15, 2002, 21:01
From: "Garrett Jones" <alkaline@...>

> i have this idea for Minyeva (my conlang) for what i will call an > "environment pronoun". I am going to describe it here, and i was just > wondering if anyone's seen anything similar in a natlang or conlang. > > In english the equivalent meaning is realized as 'it'. In esperanto, it is > realized as a null subject. > > examples: > > -"it" is hot. > -"it" is raining.
I'd like to see a "cosmic" (Latin _saeculum_, Greek _kosmos_) use of "it" in a conlang, with the following meanings: It's (the weather) hotter than a stump burning at both ends today. It's (the world, the times) all going to hell in a handbasket. It's (what people are saying nowadays) all bulls**t to me. ~Danny~

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