Re: idea: environment pronoun

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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