From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 15:10:55 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood <bronto@p...>
wrote:
> Anton Sherwood skrzypszy:
> >> Let's not forget German `Sie' and Italian `Lei', both literally
> >> `She', presumably also meaning Your Abstraction (a feminine
noun).
>
> Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> > If I am not completely mistaken, German "Sie" is not the feminine
> > singular pronoun, but the MFN plural. . . .
Thus making it somewhat parallel with the emergent use of 'they' as
the generic English pronoun.
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