adinspect | Re: About “YOU” - Was: general comments

• Autor: adinspect
• Tema: Re: About “YOU” - Was: general comments
• Data: 2002-09-17 21:54
• Mesaje: 116 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Hi all,
Sorry I'm just like jumping into this thing, but in reading the
posts previous to this one it was becoming more and more clear that
the list owners although not forcing the issue, want to keep
this "Europidgin" as close to Lingua Franca Nova as possible. But...
They are also open to anything that may benefit the language and
help it grow, in a matter of speaking, with more speakers.

So, more on the point of pronouns, it is also very obvious to me
that the forms "nos, vos and los" already sound like pluralized
forms of something.

Cordially,
Lori
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Lori Dunn
adinspect@...

--- In europidgin@y..., "europidgin" <europidgin@y...> wrote:
> To James and Alice,
>
> I'm not really sure, but once I was told that "you" originally was
the plural and/or polite form. However, the use of "you guys"
and "you folks" etc. shows the need for some sort of a "plural you".
>
> LFN suggest "vos". It might be difficult and complicated to a
chinese. But I think most Europeans, even Europeans who speak
English, easily get used to the distinction tu/vos.
>
> Bjorn