On 15/01/15 05:46, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We are funny, aren't we?
>>
>
> We is having a wee bit of fun eh? Miserable bloody rules of grammar -
> sometimes they chafe, sometimes they soothe. Language is an impediment to
> being understood.
>
As a fan of Lojban, I rise at every opportunity to scoff at English's
ambiguities and arbitrarinesses :-)
In Lojban, we have a few words for "we":
{mi}: We, the speakers
{mi'a}: We, the speakers, and some others, but not you, the listener(s)
{mi'o}: We, the speakers, and you, the listener(s)
{ma'a}: We, the speakers, and you, the listener(s), and some others
{mi'ai}: I (the speaker) and at least one another person (even if that
person is one of the speakers too)
BEAT THAT, ENGLISH!
ABS
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