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Tue 2008-03-11 11:17
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[personal profile] simontTue 2008-03-11 17:00
Gosh. I vaguely recall someone telling me once of a language with "third, fourth and fifth person" pronouns which were all basically third-person but distinguishable in much the way you describe; but actually going all the way to having an arbitrary number of them is even more cool!
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[identity profile] vyvyan.livejournal.comTue 2008-03-11 17:03
In practice, I doubt speakers would manage to keep track of more than four or five back-references at one time anyway!
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