On Wed Jan 14 2015 at 10:01:45 PM Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are amused. > > OId letter to The Economist: > > > *Sir- Having read your article about difficult languages (“Tongue twisters > <http://www.economist.com/node/15108609>”, December 19th) I scoff at > Tuyuca > and Kwaio for having only two words for “we”, inclusive and exclusive. In > English we have three: the regular we meaning you and I, as in “we had > dinner together”; the royal we meaning I, as in “we are not amused”; and > the marital we meaning you, as in “we need to take out the garbage.”* > We are funny, aren't we? Thaths
