Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:

> Something I also dislike is not having an inclusive and exclusive we.
> Sometimes it gets annoying to have to tell people "I mean we, as in the
> people I was talking about and myself, not including you" to clarify. This
> is what I really like about Tagalog, it has an inclusive, and exclusive
> we, which I incorporated into Saalangal.
Valdyan has an inclusive we, but only in the dual: _inini_ "you and
I". It has irregular stress on the second syllable and usually gets
shortened to ['ini], often pronounced ['jini] because that's what
stressed initial /i/ does in Valdyan. It contrasts with [i'ni] "the
two of us", that is, "he/she and I".

   Irina

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