From: "Christophe Grandsire"
> >Wasn't there discussion quite a while back that French was heading in
this
> >direction with the increased use of the independent pronouns in sentences
> >like:
> >Moi, je pense.
> >Toi, tu penses.
> >Lui, il pense.
> >Elle, elle pense.
> >Nous, nous pensons.
> >Vous, vous pensez.
> >Eux, ils pensent.
> >Elles, elles pensent.
> >Les chaises, elles sont très belles.
> >Le fromage, il est délicieux.
> >Ma mère, elle pense que...
> Exactly! I think within a century or so, Spoken French will use particles
> as well, coming from the person prefixes (they really are prefixes you
> know, even if most of them look exactly like the independent pronouns,
it's
> not the case of 'je' and 'tu' which can be used only as subject prefixes -
> the independent forms are 'moi' and 'toi' as you showed it - and they have
> no independent stress).
That should make pronominal verbs interesting.
Nous nous nous rasons. Nous nous nous sommes rasés?!
Vous vous vous rasez.
:)
Kou