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Example 23-40
be i gud yufala i talem olsem
be
but
i
agr
gud
good
yufala
2pl
i
agr
talem
tell
olsem
like
But it's good you tell (me) this.
Comment:
Reconstructed from a conversation two men had in front of me (but which was not recorded). The addressee was the speaker's classificatory uncle, hence the appropriateness of
yufala
(normally a plural pronoun) in addressing an individual.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Meyerhoff 1999
: 237
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Politeness distinctions in second-person pronouns: Binary pronominal politeness distinction
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