In a message dated 3/2/2002 9:11:52 AM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:"abu" and "A" also refer to the same thing (to Alice), one is But Alice's name is spelled {abu ly ibu cy ebu}, so {abu} must refer to "a" or this is a misspelling (or, more likely, a massive use-mention confusion or something very like it). <>Well, you say {MI} means {my ibu} which looks suspiciously like a >descriptive >reference, but the reference is to {mi}. No, there is no reference to the first person pronoun {mi} in {my ibu}. {my ibu} is a third person pronoun, which might refer, for example, to Mary Ingalls in some context.> {my ibu} spells {mi}, not (whatever it may be) {MI} (?{ga'e my ibu}?), which is indeed the first person pronoun and since it is spelled, is probably meant for {zo mi}, a word, certainly not Mary Ingalls, context or no (and, of course, we have no context here to fall back on). |