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i wonder

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 1:31

if any langague except japanese that has more than one word for for the pronoun "i". i guess japaneses only are such batshit insane people

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 1:37

I wonder if any language except english has to say "him/her" instead of just the shorter "him" to refer to a third party to be correct. i guess englishes only are such batshit politically-correct insane people.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 2:42

>>1
nope. japan generally has about 5 words for everything, that's why its so fucking ridiculous compared to civilized languages such as english or german.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 10:12

I and me.  That's 2 for English, enjoy.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 13:12

>>4
By that logic Finnish would have 14 words for I:

Minä, minua, minun, minut, mä, mua, mun, mut, mie, miuta, miun, miut, myö, mää

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 13:35

>>2
Practically all languages with gender distinction has to resort to that, equating that to HURR DURR POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS, I believe is idiocy

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-06 20:43

Yeah well, Finnish.  Really.  It's the linguistic world's practical joke, who gives a shit what it does.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 0:46

>>4
nope, these are just cases of i, i.e. i/my/me. like japaneses particles (i.e. watashi wa, watashi ga, watashi no etc). japanese has also more then one word for the pronoun, even i who don't learn japanese know at least five such pronouns

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 1:07

>>8
even i who don't learn japanese
There's no need in excusing yourself like this. We all know you're a weeaboo.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 16:57

>>5
are you seriously going to count mä and mää as separate forms of the word

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 17:09

>>10
Yes.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-08 20:42

>>11
do you realise what you have done here today

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-09 0:44

so, there are no other languages with plenty of such pronouns, japanese only, amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-09 1:01

>>13
Navajo.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-09 2:58

>>14
could you say me more a bit?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-09 8:15

Vietnamese, Korean and more but those are the two that come to mind for me.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-09 16:34

>>15
I'm not lying.

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