Logan Kearsley schrieb:
> As PIE got along along using demonstratives instead of the usual 3rd
> person pronouns, one could replace 1st and 2nd person pronouns using
> phrases based on words for speaker and addressee. 'I', for example,
> could be "this speaker", and 'you' could be "the (current) addressee".
The magic behind words like "I" is recursivity. A quite useful magic.
But in natural languages
we don't make much use of it. The only ones(?) we have use are:
"I" (the current person),
"here" (the current place),
"now" (the current time),
"today" (the current day).
That's not much.
To use "this" for expressing new kinds of recursive notions is no proper
solution. It is a mere make****, vague and ambigous. We can't use it
without risking to be misunderstood.
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