From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 05:02:38 EST
>>>vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
> Padraic Brown scripsit:
>>This I like, the m/f distinction. Is there a
>>reason it doesn't happen in the informal forms?
John Cowan wrote:
> Presumably because "tu" is inherited and genderless, but "vosu" is
> some short form of "Your Xness", where Xness is a gendered noun.
More like a short form of "you, sir/madam"; why would an abstraction
change gender like that?
...When did the "Your Abstraction" form first appear, anyway?
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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