From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 05:14:56 EST
Padraic Brown scripsit:
> > vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
>
> This I like, the m/f distinction. Is there a
> reason it doesn't happen in the informal forms?
Presumably because "tu" is inherited and genderless, but "vosu" is some
short form of "Your Xness", where Xness is a gendered noun.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
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