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|ex1=Hey, this is good! (informing another that they should try it, vs. eliciting agreement when both are already eating it, which would perhaps be "ko") | |ex1=Hey, this is good! (informing another that they should try it, vs. eliciting agreement when both are already eating it, which would perhaps be "ko") | ||
| − | |comments=like Bavarian "fei" or Japanese "yo", informs the interlocutor that you have new information that is pertinent.[http://forum.learnnavi.org/vocabulary-expansion/a-word-for-the-german-doch/15/] | + | |comments=like Bavarian "fei" or Japanese "yo", informs the interlocutor that you have new information that is pertinent.[http://forum.learnnavi.org/vocabulary-expansion/a-word-for-the-german-doch/15/] Other emotive/discourse particles (spoken punctuation) might also be useful, such as a particle used for "thinking aloud" or parenthetical comments (spoken parentheses) which one does not expect to be answered, unlike "ko" or "fei/yo", which one does expect a response to. |
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self, one's own (B)
- "He ate his (someone else's) yerik" vs. "He ate his (own) yerik."
- [1] Models are European reflexive pronouns and African logophoric pronouns; looser association w Algonquian "4th person". Perhaps self-GEN vs. lapeyä ?
(informative particle) (B)
- Hey, this is good! (informing another that they should try it, vs. eliciting agreement when both are already eating it, which would perhaps be "ko")
- like Bavarian "fei" or Japanese "yo", informs the interlocutor that you have new information that is pertinent.[2] Other emotive/discourse particles (spoken punctuation) might also be useful, such as a particle used for "thinking aloud" or parenthetical comments (spoken parentheses) which one does not expect to be answered, unlike "ko" or "fei/yo", which one does expect a response to.
