Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ты-вы: etymology ?

On Sep 26, 10:54 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're so focused, how come this response of yours has no connection
to my comment?

Because I wanted to go to bed, and you just
repeated a prioris, Now I woke up early,
because the cats are hungry, and because
I had a nagging feeling that this thread may
be full of repiles. And looky here, it is full
of replies.

Focused? You are the master of digression.

Yes, I stay focused, which allows me all kinds
of digressions, because I can always and
immediately return to the question in question,
here pronouns. I answer this question on the
basis of earlier insights of mine proposed in
a thread on the etymology of Latin homo,
and my answer is founded in my studies of
the physiology of language. I said it many
times here in this thread, but you called my
interest in this topic "obsessive." I repeat
myself. The physiological explanation of
moi and me (and of mon ma, my mine,
mein meine meins, mio mia ...) as coming
from a veary early way of marking presence
by humming, and je and I referring to the
eye and taking up of contact with the world
and another person is the key to understanding
pronouns. As long as you are digressing and
not willing to ponder this answer I droodle
around, but always ready to get back to the
question of this thread immediately.

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