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   Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:02:50 JST Luke T. Shumaker

   We should have separate words for "we" depending on whether the person being spoken to is included in "we" or not.

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     ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ (deshipu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:05:32 JST ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

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     @lukeshu It's called "exclusive we" and many languages have it.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity

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     Tomo Saigon (tomosaigon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 14:09:05 JST Tomo Saigon

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     @lukeshu the Vietnamese pronoun system makes this distinction but I don't see it used much at all