From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 01:15:20 MST
At 04:18 PM 05/03/2002, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>Harvey writes:
> > 1 think 2 are taking 3 comments out of context. No 5 would take 6 so far.
>
>hal@finney.org wrote,
> >
> > This reminds me of Loglan's version of pronouns, when I was learning it 20
> > years ago. They used da, de, di, do, and du, which were kind of like 1,
> > 2, 3, 4, 5. Da was the most recently named noun, de was the 2nd most
> > recently named, and so on. So if you had "The AI told John that his
> > sister had left her wallet at the store," the store would be da, the
> > wallet de, the sister di, John do and the AI du. So you could follow
> > it with "Du also said do should go to da and get de." You would soon
> > learn to subconsciously associate the right pronoun with the right noun,
> > the designers hoped.
>
>Di doubt da!
Beautiful! I laughed out loud at that. Thankyou Harvey. :-)
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