James Chandler | Re: [europidgin] Re: Personal pronouns - The most simple solution

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Autor: James Chandler (“idojc”)
Tema: Re: [europidgin] Re: Personal pronouns - The most simple solution
Data: 2002-09-17 08:38
Mesaje: 101 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Viktoro:

>In Chinese, 'we' is plural 'I':
>
>Mandarin pronouns...
>wo3 - I
>wo3men - we

Thats a good point.  But I think we need to distinguish between usage and
logic in this case.  'We' just isnt logically 'more than one me', in the
same way as 'they' is 'more than one he/she'.  Even for an inclusive 'we'
where there is also an exclusive, i would not advise the use of 1sg+Plural.
There was a lot of discussion of using 'mes' for inclusive 'we' on the
Novial Reform list back in 1998.  I said the same thing then.

Kordiale, James Chandler
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