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Should all human languages merge together into a huge composite? (lemmy.ml)
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Not like esperanto. Everyone becomes filipino basically, but for everything, not just being filipino by itself

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[โ€“] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

all languages have pronouns

IIRC, there exist languages without pronouns, where instead constructions like 'one who speaks', 'one who listens' and so on are used.

[โ€“] TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, it was a mistake on my part. I forgot that Sign Language (at least the Brazilian one) works this way for example. Thanks for the correction.

This does make my point even clearer though: languages are really diverse.