pronounssss

[inventrix]

DAY THIRTEEN: Prooonooooooooounnnnnnsssssss.

"Why are you dreading pronouns so much," you ask?

Well. Because when you think pronouns, you're thinking like: he, she, it, they, you.

I'm thinking those, plus theeeeeeeeese:

	QUERY	THIS	THAT	SOME	NO	EVERY	ANY
ADJ	which	this	that	some	no	every	any
PERS	who			someone	noone	everyone	anyone
THNG	what	this	that	something	nothing	everything	anything
PLCE	where	here	there	somewhere	nowhere	everywhere	anywhere
TIME	when	now	then	sometime	never	always	anytime
WAY	how	thus		somehow	nohow	all ways	anyhow
REAS	why
AMT				some	none	all

So, yeah. Gwargh. Let's start with the easy ones.
he: tho
she: tso
it: thyf
you: keut

Case and plurality endings get stuck on them as per normal nouns. For the Giant Table of Doom, I'm taking the "stick things onto things" principle and stealing a page out of Japanese. They'll consist of two parts, kind of like a spreadsheet address. The first part is the column info, the second is the row.

Tomorrow... tomorrow I'll make up the bits for the columns. The rows if I'm feeling ambitious.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Why make all of those pronouns, instead of... determiners, as I think (some) of those are in English?

Also, isn't the table missing "for this reason," "for some reason," "for no reason," "for any reason," and also (more practically) "how much?"

[inventrix]

Some of them are both, but the functions are different. e.g. "I have that." vs. "I have that book." A pronoun replaces a noun while a determiner attaches to one.

The table is probably not complete but I stole it from zompist - plus which spots do or don't have entries for English is not all that relevant. 8) (I speculate those are missing because they're phrases; the inclusion of "all ways" always struck me as not belonging.)

[clare_dragonfly]

I think I see the distinction! The difference between "I am the owner of that book, right over there" and "have you read Into Lannamer?" "why yes! I own that!" ...maybe? It sounded clearer before I typed it up. And I probably would use "it" instead of "that" in the second example, which make the usage undeniably pronoun-y.

I suspected that some of the missing entries might be due to being phrases and making the table all long and awkward.

[inventrix]

Yeah that's basically the idea! (The prior sentence is an example of using "that" as a pronoun. ;D)