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Conlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)

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The Difference Between Someone and Anyone in a Language

Some languages use the same pronouns for those. Japanese is a small one that is almost regular. But it's kind of hard if you start just from the chart to go backwards and produce that irregularity. And that pretty much goes for all frameworks. I think like these little things like doing anybody, somebody, nobody are the things I'm most worried of copying English. Because I don't want to.

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