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22/03/2005 10:21:00
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00998036
Message ID:
00998091
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>I wish we still used these to save confusion, e.g. talking to a group of people: "Did you enjoy the show?" -is it the person you're looking at or everyone who is/are being addressed?

In Quechua - the language of the Inka empire, still spoken by millions of people - there are two forms of "we":

noqanchej: includes the person spoken to.
noqayku: excludes the person spoken to.

Verbs have the corresponding additional conjugation.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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