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  • It seem like a lot of languages can achieve it somewhat, but only some truly have it. I don’t think Spanish has it.

    Edit: Read further into the wiki article:

    “It is, of course, possible in any language to express the idea of clusivity semantically, and many languages provide common forms that clarify the ambiguity of their first person pronoun (English "the rest of us", Italian noialtri). A language with a true clusivity distinction, however, does not provide a first-person plural with indefinite clusivity in which the clusivity of the pronoun is ambiguous; rather, speakers are forced to specify by the choice of pronoun or inflection, whether they are including the addressee or not. That rules out most European languages, for example.”
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    • Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
      It seem like a lot of languages can achieve it somewhat, but only some truly have it. I don’t think Spanish has it.

      Edit: Read further into the wiki article:

      “It is, of course, possible in any language to express the idea of clusivity semantically, and many languages provide common forms that clarify the ambiguity of their first person pronoun (English "the rest of us", Italian noialtri). A language with a true clusivity distinction, however, does not provide a first-person plural with indefinite clusivity in which the clusivity of the pronoun is ambiguous; rather, speakers are forced to specify by the choice of pronoun or inflection, whether they are including the addressee or not. That rules out most European languages, for example.”
      That makes sense. It's like languages where you have to indicate the timing of an action. You can't say "I got the mail." You have to say "I the mail got-just now" or "I the mail got-this morning" or "I the mail got-last Wednesday," because got without a time stamp doesn't have any meaning.
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      • Oh man, grammatical number is a rabbit hole. Just read the link, it pays offs. Fun teaser: you know how English has forms for singular, plural, and also dual (both, neither)? Well there are Aboriginal languages that distinguish between 1, 2 (including me but not you), 2 (with you but not me), 2 (us both), 2 (neither of us), 3, 4, and 5.

        You can do advanced set theory just using pronouns.
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