Languary 3
Finally, my third Languary post. I realised that I was tying myself up in knots trying to write every thing out, so here we are:
We now move to people who aren’t us with the second person.
The creators of ‘Allspeak’ divided the people to whom one might be speaking directly into the familiar, the unfamiliar, and those with whom it is impossible to became familiar. The first category contains friends, family, and (often) ones’ deity of choice. The second category is people outside the first category and is thus the form used for strangers and in formal and/or professional circumstances. The third category contains animals, things, and metaphorical concepts.
The singular second person pronouns are:
Subjective Objective Possessive adjective Reflexive
Familiar tay /teɪ/ tayer /teɪɜ/ taym /teɪm/ tayertay /teɪɜteɪ/
Unfamiliar tuy /taɪ/ tuyer /taɪɜ/ tuym /taɪm/ tuyertuy /taɪɜtaɪ/
Impossible toy /tɔɪ/ toyer /tɔɪɜ/ toym /tɔɪm/ toyertoy /tɔɪɜtɔɪ/
This makes the plural second person pronouns:
Subjective Objective Possessive adjective Reflexive
Familiar tayk /teɪk/ tayker /teɪkɜ/ taykm /teɪkm/ taykertayk /teɪkɜteɪk/
Unfamiliar tuyk /taɪk/ tuyker /taɪkɜ/ tuykm /taɪkm/ tuykertuyk /taɪkɜtaɪk/
Impossible toyk /tɔɪk/ toyker /tɔɪkɜ/ toykm /tɔɪkm/ toyertoy /tɔɪɜtɔɪ/
That, in turn, leads us to second person verbs. ‘Allspeak’ does this by adding the vowel of the subjective pronoun to the basic verb form as a suffix before any tense suffixes are added. Thus you have:
Singular Plural
Familiar Unfamiliar Impossible Familiar Unfamiliar Impossible
you stop tarkay tarkuy tarkoy tarkayk tarkuyk tarkoyk
you are stopping tarkaya takuya tarkoya tarkayak takuyak tarkoyak
you will stop tarkay’yu tarkuy’yu tarkoy’yu tarkay’yuk tarkuy’yuk tarkoy’yuk
you will be stopping tarkayayu tarkuyayu tarkoyayu tarkayayuk tarkuyayuk tarkoyayuk
you plan to stop yutarkay yutarkuy yutarkoy yutarkayk yutarkuyk yutarkoyk
And so on.
We now move to people who aren’t us with the second person.
The creators of ‘Allspeak’ divided the people to whom one might be speaking directly into the familiar, the unfamiliar, and those with whom it is impossible to became familiar. The first category contains friends, family, and (often) ones’ deity of choice. The second category is people outside the first category and is thus the form used for strangers and in formal and/or professional circumstances. The third category contains animals, things, and metaphorical concepts.
The singular second person pronouns are:
Subjective Objective Possessive adjective Reflexive
Familiar tay /teɪ/ tayer /teɪɜ/ taym /teɪm/ tayertay /teɪɜteɪ/
Unfamiliar tuy /taɪ/ tuyer /taɪɜ/ tuym /taɪm/ tuyertuy /taɪɜtaɪ/
Impossible toy /tɔɪ/ toyer /tɔɪɜ/ toym /tɔɪm/ toyertoy /tɔɪɜtɔɪ/
This makes the plural second person pronouns:
Subjective Objective Possessive adjective Reflexive
Familiar tayk /teɪk/ tayker /teɪkɜ/ taykm /teɪkm/ taykertayk /teɪkɜteɪk/
Unfamiliar tuyk /taɪk/ tuyker /taɪkɜ/ tuykm /taɪkm/ tuykertuyk /taɪkɜtaɪk/
Impossible toyk /tɔɪk/ toyker /tɔɪkɜ/ toykm /tɔɪkm/ toyertoy /tɔɪɜtɔɪ/
That, in turn, leads us to second person verbs. ‘Allspeak’ does this by adding the vowel of the subjective pronoun to the basic verb form as a suffix before any tense suffixes are added. Thus you have:
Singular Plural
Familiar Unfamiliar Impossible Familiar Unfamiliar Impossible
you stop tarkay tarkuy tarkoy tarkayk tarkuyk tarkoyk
you are stopping tarkaya takuya tarkoya tarkayak takuyak tarkoyak
you will stop tarkay’yu tarkuy’yu tarkoy’yu tarkay’yuk tarkuy’yuk tarkoy’yuk
you will be stopping tarkayayu tarkuyayu tarkoyayu tarkayayuk tarkuyayuk tarkoyayuk
you plan to stop yutarkay yutarkuy yutarkoy yutarkayk yutarkuyk yutarkoyk
And so on.