Ai
See also: a
Trigedasleng
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ai
Adjective
ai
- my; first person singular personal possessive adjective
Pronoun
ai (first person singular, dual inclusive yumi, plural inclusive oso, plural exclusive osir)
- I; first person singular personal pronoun
Inflection
| Trigedasleng Personal Pronouns | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | ||||||||
| 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | ||||
| Plain | Pejorative | Inclusive | Exclusive | Plain | Pejorative | ||||
| Plain | ai | yu | em | du | yumi, oso | osir | yo | emo | du |
| Possessive | ain | yun | emon | oson | yon | emon | |||
Related Terms
Creation and Usage Notes
| When I was trying to think up a reason that Trigedasleng would be very, very similar to English and yet also not just English, I came up with the idea of a code. I reasoned that those who were alive on Earth at the time Skaikru came down would be the descendants of the most successful groups to come out of the nuclear catastrophe. One thing a successful group might do is come up with a code to help easily distinguish group members from outsiders. An easy way to get an outsider to slip is to do something an English speaker would never do on their own: Use "I" in non-subject position. Thus was born the Trigedasleng first person pronoun, which doesn't change in any grammatical position. (The notion was suggested by the usage of "I" in Iyaric, but there it's done for philosophical rather than practical reasons.)
-David J. Peterson 02:53, 6 February 2020 (PST) |
Etymology 2
Verb
ai (root)