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lexi
@lexi

i think we can all agree that "we" sucks, because it can mean (n is n-th person) 1 & 3 | 1 & 2 | 1 & 2 & 3, but this gets a lot worse with plural folks, because instead of only having three parties, each party can have another party, because you can refer to them as a system or to members of the system. to calculate how many meanings we has, we can use the formula 2^(n-1)-1, because we have 2^n possibilities, but we always includes yourself (2^(n-1)), and needs at least one other party 2^(n-1)-1. so instead of 2^(3-1)-1 (3), we can have up to 2^(6-1)-1, so 31, yes, thirty fucking one possible meanings of "we" when you, your conversation partner and a 3rd party are all plural. what the fuck


lexi
@lexi

me omw to quantum-shitpost about language math instead of doing my actual math assignment that is overdue already

(yes ill do it in a second)


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Not all languages are as deficient as English in this regard. Native Hawaiian, as an example, has different pronouns for 1 & 2 vs 1 & 3 vs 1 & 2 & 3 vs 1 & 3 & 3. On the one hand its number system distinguishes dual from (from what it calls) plural, and on the other distinguishes between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural. Some languages make one or the other of these distinctions, most Indo-European languages make neither (although archaic Latin had the Dual), and Hawaiian has both.